{"id":318620,"date":"2026-03-02T23:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318620\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:37:08","slug":"best-medicine-renewed-for-season-2-at-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/318620\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Best Medicine’ Renewed For Season 2 At Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Fox<\/a> has renewed its freshman series Best Medicine<\/a> with a 12-episode second season for 2026-27.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news comes as no surprise. As Deadline noted in the Fox Renewal Status Report<\/a> last month, the comedic small town medical drama starring Josh Charles<\/a> had been considered a lock for renewal with potent, consistent week-to-week delivery.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Medicine\u2018s premiere delivered 12.6 million total multi-platform viewers, ranking among broadcast\u2019s Top 2 highest-rated drama debuts this season among Adults 18-49, alongside fellow Fox freshman drama series Memory of a Killer, starring Patrick Dempsey, whose renewal also is fully expected. What\u2019s more, with its time period premiere, Best Medicine, which launched behind an NFL game, became the only scripted series this season to grow from its debut to its second episode in total viewers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe adaptation of the British staple Doc Martin currently stands as Fox\u2019s second-largest 7-day total multi-platform audience of the season to date, averaging 6.0 million P2+ viewers across its first five episodes, with each of the initial telecasts surpassing one million viewers in 7-day streaming.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pickup of Best Medicine follows Fox\u2019s Season 5 renewal of Animal Control last week. <\/a>They are two of the network\u2019s three fully owned ongoing scripted series.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Medicine\u00a0is produced by Fox Entertainment Studios and executive produced by Liz Tuccillo, who developed the U.S. version and serves as showrunner,\u00a0Propagate\u2019s Ben Silverman, Rodney Ferrell, and Howard T. Owens, as well as Mark Crowdy and Philippa Braithwaite.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBest Medicine quickly became a breakout for us this season, blending sharp humor with real heart,\u201d said Michael Thorn, President of Fox Television Network. \u201cLiz Tuccillo brings a distinctive creative voice to the series, and Josh Charles leads an exceptional cast that audiences have embraced. We, along with Propogate, are excited to build on that momentum in Season 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast also includes Abigail Spencer, Josh Segarra, Cree and Annie Potts.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Medicine centers on Dr. Martin Best (Charles), a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child with his Aunt Sarah (Potts). There, he encounters an eclectic group of townspeople, including schoolteacher Louisa Gavin (Spencer), Sheriff Mark Mylow (Segarra) and his assistant Elaine Denton (Cree).<\/p>\n

\n\tMartin\u2019s blunt, no-nonsense bedside manner quickly alienates the quirky locals, even though he is the only doctor they have. While he can expertly diagnose any medical mystery, he struggles with a debilitating new phobia and childhood trauma that make intimacy difficult. In a town defined by tenacity and heart, the very people Martin pushes away may ultimately be exactly what he needs.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Medicine is based on the long-running ITV series Doc Martin, led by Martin Clunes. Clunes will make a special guest appearance in the upcoming March 3 episode aptly titled \u201cDoc Martin,\u201d in the new role of Dr. Robert Best.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJosh Charles and Martin Clunes in the \u201cDoc Martin\u201d episode of Best Medicine.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrancisco Roman\/FOX.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Memory of a Killer, renewals<\/a> for Doc and Murder in a Small Town are also pending, with the Dennis Leary-led comedy series Going Dutch on the bubble.<\/p>\n

\n\tBest Medicine\u00a0is distributed worldwide by Fox Entertainment Global. All3Media International\u2019s\u00a0Doc Martin\u00a0was produced in the UK by Buffalo Pictures in association with Homerun Film Productions, and brought to the U.S. by Propagate Content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Fox has renewed its freshman series Best Medicine with a 12-episode second season for 2026-27. The news…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[51398,146,17680,85,46,106208,17885,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-318620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-best-medicine","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fox","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-josh-charles","14":"tag-renewals","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}