From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   suzeeq  wrote:   
   >On 1/2/2026 9:32 AM, shawn wrote:   
   >>On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 08:19:16 -0800, suzeeq  wrote:   
   >>>On 1/2/2026 8:16 AM, Robin Miller wrote:   
   >>>>Adam H. Kerman wrote:   
   >>>>>Ian J. Ball  wrote:   
   >>>>>>On 12/30/25 2:55 PM, Robin Miller wrote:   
      
   >>>>>>>Best Medicine [new] (8 pm, Fox)   
      
   >>>>>>>Josh Charles plays an accomplished surgeon with poor bedside   
   >>>>>>>manner who leaves his career in Boston behind to become a general   
   >>>>>>>practitioner in a small coastal town in this American remake of   
   >>>>>>>the long-running British series Doc Martin. Abigail Spencer and   
   >>>>>>>Annie Potts also star. Tonight's premiere will repeat on Tuesday   
   >>>>>>>1/6 at 8 pm, the show's regular timeslot going forward. 13 episodes.   
      
   >>>>>>I might sample this.   
      
   >>>>>The original was vile. Why would you think this would be entertaining?   
      
   >>>>I don't understand that reaction. I loved Doc Martin. Everyone loved Doc   
   >>>>Martin. The town where the show was filmed, Port Isaac in Cornwall, was   
   >>>>full of visitors when the show wasn't filming.   
      
   >>>I don't like Doc Martin.   
      
   >>I don't know Doc Martin.   
   >>Only Doc Marten I know is the shoe maker.   
      
   >It's a PBS series, been running for almost a couple decades. Mostly, I   
   >don't like Martin Clunes, or at least the way he portrays the character.   
      
   The setup was he had to stop practicing surgery because he suddenly   
   couldn't stand the sight of blood. I have no idea if that's a thing.   
      
   For me, it was the same script from one episode to the next. The   
   characters were all cardboard. Some crazy character did something to   
   embarass the lead character, who is some sort of highly repressed   
   individual in all human interaction. When he gave sound medical advice,   
   he was nearly always ignored.   
      
   I didn't find any of it entertaining.   
      
   However, I've seen Martin Clunes on other television and his performance   
   is fine.   
      
   In the United States, it was distributed to public television stations   
   as first-run syndicated foreign programming through American Public   
   Television, not through PBS.   
      
   The concept has been sold to be adapted in a half dozen countries already   
   for domestic broadcast. The U.S. adaptation is the seventh. They are   
   really exploiting this concept.   
      
   >>>>Martin Clunes is an excellent actor, and I like Caroline Catz also.   
      
   >>>>The show ran for 10 seasons and has an 8.4 IMDb rating:   
      
   >>>>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408381/   
      
   >>>>That said, Josh Charles is not Martin Clunes, and I have no idea if this   
   >>>>show will be any good. Are American remakes of foreign shows ever any   
   >>>>good? The US remake of the wonderful Gran Hotel was a complete failure,   
   >>>>unlike the Egyptian and Mexican remakes.   
      
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