Joshua Jackson’s return to community tv is strictly what the physician ordered.
In response to Selection, the 45-year-old has signed on for a brand new ABC sequence from Ryan Murphy titled Dr. Odyssey. It marks the primary time Jackson might be returning to primetime tv in additional than 10 years following his position as Peter Bishop in Fringe on Fox, which resulted in 2013.
Specifics about Dr. Odyssey’s plot are being saved below wraps, however Jackson is about to painting the charming titular character on the present, which can reportedly happen on a cruise ship. No different solid members have been revealed.
Jackson is govt producing the undertaking alongside Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken. The latter have collaborated with Murphy, 58, on a number of tasks through the years, together with American Horror Tales and Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans. They’re additionally creating a brand new authorized drama for Hulu starring Kim Kardashian.
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Whereas Jackson has been away from community TV for a while, he already has expertise with medical sequence. In 2021, he performed neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch on season 1 of the Peacock restricted docudrama Dr. Loss of life, which was primarily based on the 2018 Wondery podcast in regards to the medical doctors and the lawyer who took down the real-life Duntsch. (The physician was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 after being convicted of maiming one among his sufferers.)
Forward of Dr. Loss of life’s debut, Jackson solely informed Us Weekly how he ready for the extreme undertaking. “I felt like I had the emotional bandwidth to take one thing like this on,” he stated in July 2021. “It was greater than even I anticipated it to be, nevertheless it was apparent for me from the very starting that this was going to be fairly a heavy carry.”
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He added, “It wasn’t till we completed it and I put the entire thing down that I noticed how heavy it really had been over the course of the time. I used to be deluding myself about how succesful I used to be to kind of go away it on the workplace. It was extremely darkish. The fabric is darkish.”
Jackson additionally hinted in a 2022 Selection interview that he was trying ahead to enjoying a distinct type of medical skilled sooner or later following the drama of Dr. Loss of life.
“I’m pleased to not play anyone as psychologically as intense as Christopher Duntsch for a short while as a result of the load of that was fairly intense over the course of taking pictures the present,” he informed the outlet on the time.
Together with Fringe and Dr. Loss of life, Jackson is understood for his roles in Little Fires All over the place, The Affair, Deadly Attraction and Dawson’s Creek.
