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Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Josh Charles to Star in ‘Doc Martin' Adaptation at Fox
Fox is adding another medical show to its roster. The network has given a series order to Best Medicine, an adaptation of the long-running British series Doc Martin. Josh Charles will star in the show, which Fox describes as an hour-long comedy, as a successful surgeon who abruptly leave his post in Boston to become a general practitioner in the East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a kid. It's slated to premiere in the 2025-26 season More from The Hollywood Reporter 'Lopez vs. Lopez' and 'Night Court' Canceled After Three Seasons Apiece at NBC 'American Idol' Among Five ABC Unscripted Pickups, 'Bachelor' Still in Limbo Warner Bros. Discovery's New Ad Sales Chiefs Hope "Best In Class IP" Boosts This Year's Upfront Fox Entertainment will own the series outright, with Fox Entertainment Studios producing. All3Media International owns the Doc Martin format, which Propagate Content brought to Fox. Liz Tuccillo (Sex and the City, Divorce) executive produces with Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens and Rodney Ferrell of Propagate and Mark Crowdy and Philippa Braithwaite, EPs of the original series. 'The story of Doc Martin has resonated worldwide with its humanity, originality, and humor, and with Best Medicine coming to Fox, that eccentricity gets a small-town America spin, complete with idyllic charm and absurdity,' Fox Television Network president Michael Thorn said in a statement. 'Liz, Mark, Philippa, Ben, and Rodney have done a terrific job adapting this signature character for the Fox audience, especially in casting the terrifically talented Josh Charles as our lead.' Added Silverman, 'The entire Propagate team is thrilled to be working with Fox Entertainment on this extraordinary adaptation by Liz Tuccillo of the global hit Doc Martin. Josh Charles is the perfect lead for this brilliantly character-driven comedic procedural. Best Medicine is a world we'll all want to be part of.' Charles currently appears in the final season of The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu. He earned a pair of Emmy nominations for his role on The Good Wife; other TV credits include Sports Night, The Veil, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and HBO's We Own This City. Best Medicine is Fox's first new scripted series order for 2025-26 (animated series American Dad is also returning to the network after a long run on TBS). The show will join another medical series, Doc, on Fox next season. THR's broadcast scorecard has a rundown of all the series orders, renewals and cancellations for 2025-26. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 22 of the Most Shocking Character Deaths in Television History A 'Star Wars' Timeline: All the Movies and TV Shows in the Franchise 'Yellowstone' and the Sprawling Dutton Family Tree, Explained
ITV News
23-04-2025
- Business
- ITV News
Catalina Ramirez joins ITV Studios as VP Sales, US and Latin America
Catalina Ramirez, has joined ITV Studios as VP Sales US and Latin America. Formerly Co-Head of Propagate International, Catalina will report to SVP Sales US and Latin America, Rob Kaplan. In her new role, Catalina will lead on sales of ITV Studio's burgeoning 95,000 hour catalogue to the Latin American region and support all US sales initiatives. She will provide strategic input to maximise market potential while cultivating relationships with clients across TV, Cable, FAST, SVOD, AVOD, TVOD and Home Entertainment. In line with the broad diversity of ITV Studios' slate, for the Lat Am region Catalina will be selling everything from the upcoming season The Voice USA (NBC) featuring Mega Mentors LeAnn Rimes and Sheryl Crow, as well as the no.1 US reality show across all streaming platforms in 2024, Love Island USA (Peacock); to premium scripted shows such as Future Shack Entertainment's Good Cop, Bad Cop (The CW, ROKU & Stan) and Murder in a Small Town (FOX), to Mammoth Screen's stars studded The Forsytes (PBS and Channel 5). Katie Buchanan, EVP Sale Americas, ITV Studios said 'We're absolutely thrilled to have Catalina on board our Americas team. She brings incredible content experience and a talent for the complex deal-making required of a team like ours as the way viewers consume content continues to evolve. With her addition to the team we look forward to proactively pursuing all the opportunities for our high quality shows in these vibrant markets.' Catalina Ramirez said 'I'm thrilled to join ITV Studios, a company known not only for its outstanding content, but for consistently setting trends and pushing the industry forward. With its truly global footprint and world-class catalogue, it's an honor to work with such a talented team and help bring this incredible slate to audiences across the US and Latin America.' In her role as Co-Head of International at Propagate Content, Catalina oversaw worldwide sales and distribution of Propagate's original content as well as third-party catalogues from FOX and Showtime. This included successful shows and formats such as Jane The Virgin, The Masked Singer, the HBO documentary LFG and the Hulu docu-series Hillary. She also supervised production efforts for the Propagate's Spanish-speaking content label across broadcast and streaming, managing film and TV projects from development and financing through sales and distribution. Prior to this Catalina was Global Sales Manager at Gunpowder & Sky overseeing the Film and TV Licensing sales team. From 2015 - 2019, she was International Sales manager at Magnolia Pictures maintaining sales relationships with key film buyers, and spearheading efforts across Asia. Catalina has worked on several award-winning projects including as an Associate Producer on the EmmyⓇ Award-winning In Her Hands for Netflix, produced with Chelsea and Hillary Clinton. [Ends] Notes to editors: ITV Studios is a creator, producer and distributor of world-leading programmes that people can't get enough of. We connect millions of people every day and shape and reflect the world they live in, we are More Than TV. ITV Studios is home to some of the best creative minds, crafting over 6,700 hours of original programming across 60 production labels. Our global footprint spans 13 countries including the UK, US, Australia, France, Germany, The Nordics, Italy and the Netherlands and our global distribution business sells our catalogue of 95,000+ hours to broadcasters and platforms around the world. ITV Studios has 160+ owned and operated channels in the social space delivering over 10bn views in 2024, as well as 20 FAST channels on 100+ channel feeds globally. It launched a new label, Zoo 55 dedicated to expanding its digital and gaming activity, in January 2025. ITV Studios is part of ITV PLC, which includes the UK's largest commercial broadcaster ITV and the ad-funded, free streaming home for ITV, ITVX.
