Fresh Maine lobster, straight from New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the new Fox comedy \u201cBest Medicine,\u201d which showrunner Liz\u00a0Tuccillo described as \u201cHouse\u201d meets \u201cGilmore Girls,\u201d the curmudgeonly Dr. Martin Best (Josh Charles) moves from Boston to be the general practitioner in a quaint Maine fishing village called Port Wenn.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBest Medicine\u201d premieres Tuesday, Jan. 6 (8 p.m. on Fox), and the town is filled with quirky characters played by Annie Potts<\/a>, Abigail Spencer, and Josh Segarra. It\u2019s all based on the British show, \u201cDoc Martin.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n But, the cast didn\u2019t have to relocate to remote Maine \u2013 it was all filmed in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI was spending time in Maine with friends during Covid,\u201d Tuccillo told The Post.\u00a0\u201cI wanted to put it in a place that was not just a small, cozy small town, but also had an industry attached to it and a livelihood and a lifestyle. I liked the idea of being in a fishing community.\u201d<\/p>\n Josh Segarra, Josh Charles and Abigail Spencer in \u201cBest Medecine.\u201d FOX Image Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n Josh Charles in \u201cBest Medecine.\u201d F.ROMAN<\/p>\n Josh Charles in \u201cBest Medicine.\u201d FOX Image Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n Since Maine is so remote and has \u201cno television infrastructure,\u201d it didn\u2019t make sense to film there. Instead, Tuccillo and the \u201cBest Medicine\u201d team found some quaint Hudson Valley<\/a> towns about ninety minutes outside of Manhattan that could be transformed into Maine onscreen, including New Hamburg, Cornwall, Beacon, and Hudson.\u00a0<\/p>\n Although the locations make the show scenic, they also made for some amusing misadventures for the cast.\u00a0<\/p>\n Segarra told The Post that when they were filming in Cornwall, \u201cthere is a train that goes by probably every eight minutes. So, we will be in the middle of a scene. And here comes that beautiful train!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n He described the train as, \u201cone of those long ones. You\u2019re sitting there for about ten minutes,\u201d waiting for it to pass, which interrupted a scene. \u201cWe had one that I felt like it took an hour.\u201d<\/p>\n The \u201cOther Two\u201d actor joked that since it was such a part of the filming experience, he wanted \u201cto make sure that we put that train in the show!\u201d<\/p>\n Josh Segarra in \u201cBest Medecine.\u201d FOX Image Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n Josh Charles in \u201cBest Medecine.\u201d FOX Image Collection via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u00a0Martin\u2019s home \/ office was on a soundstage, but otherwise, the production used buildings such as real homes, or an old barn in Cornwall for on-location shoots. <\/p>\n They used shots of the Hudson River to stand in for the harbor in their Maine town. <\/p>\n