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Best Medicine Returns in September as Abigail Spencer’s Louisa Becomes a Focal Role

Critics say Spencer’s grounded schoolteacher gives Josh Charles’s blood‑phobic doctor the steady counterpoint that could shape the Fox adaptation’s tone.

Overview

  • The Fox series Best Medicine is scheduled to return in September for a new season, continuing the U.S. adaptation of the British show Doc Martin.
  • Josh Charles stars as Dr. Martin Best, a Boston surgeon who left his hospital after developing a fear of blood and relocated to the small, fictional Port Wenn to work as a general practitioner.
  • Abigail Spencer plays Louisa Gavin, a skeptical local schoolteacher whose direct, steady presence is being framed as crucial to grounding Dr. Best’s brusque and traumatized character.
  • Reviewers say the show’s future success will hinge on keeping a humane, low‑soapy tone that emphasizes kindness and character work over melodramatic plot twists.
  • Best Medicine adapts a long‑running UK series and features a familiar ensemble that includes Annie Potts, Josh Segarra, Cree and John DiMaggio, with filming based in locations that stand in for the Maine village of Port Wenn.