Joshua Jackson’s return to community tv is strictly what the physician ordered.
Based on Selection, the 45-year-old has signed on for a brand new ABC collection from Ryan Murphy titled Dr. Odyssey. It marks the primary time Jackson will likely be returning to primetime tv in additional than 10 years following his function as Peter Bishop in Fringe on Fox, which resulted in 2013.
Specifics about Dr. Odyssey’s plot are being stored underneath wraps, however Jackson is ready to painting the charming titular character on the present, which is able to reportedly happen on a cruise ship. No different forged members have been revealed.
Jackson is government producing the challenge alongside Jon Robin Baitz and Joe Baken. The latter have collaborated with Murphy, 58, on a number of tasks over time, together with American Horror Tales and Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans. They’re additionally growing 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 collection. In 2021, he performed neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch on season 1 of the Peacock restricted docudrama Dr. Demise, which was based mostly on the 2018 Wondery podcast concerning 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 in all his sufferers.)
Forward of Dr. Demise’s debut, Jackson completely advised Us Weekly how he ready for the extreme challenge. “I felt like I had the emotional bandwidth to take one thing like this on,” he mentioned 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 truly had been over the course of the time. I used to be deluding myself about how succesful I used to be to kind of depart 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 unique sort of medical skilled sooner or later following the drama of Dr. Demise.
“I’m pleased to not play any individual as psychologically as intense as Christopher Duntsch for a short time as a result of the load of that was fairly intense over the course of capturing the present,” he advised the outlet on the time.
Together with Fringe and Dr. Demise, Jackson is thought for his roles in Little Fires In every single place, The Affair, Deadly Attraction and Dawson’s Creek.
