Joshua Jackson to star in ABC’s new Ryan Murphy drama Dr. Odyssey
Joshua Jackson‘s return to network television is just what the doctor ordered.
According to Varietythe 45 year old has signed on for a new abc series of Ryan Murphy titled Dr. Odyssey. It marks the first time in more than a decade that Jackson has returned to primetime television after his role as Peter Bishop Zoom on Fox, which ended in 2013.
Details about Dr. OdysseyThe film’s plot is being kept under wraps, but Jackson will play the charming titular character in the show, which will reportedly be set on a cruise ship. No other cast members have been revealed.
Jackson is also executive producer of the project Jon Robin Baitz And Joe Baken. The latter have collaborated with Murphy, 58, on multiple projects over the years, including American horror stories And Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. They are also developing a new legal drama for Hulu starring Kim Kardashian.
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Although Jackson has been away from network TV for a while, he already has experience with medical series. In 2021, he played neurosurgeon Dr. Christopher Duntsch in season 1 of the Peacock limited docudrama Dr. Dead, based on the 2018 Wondery podcast about the doctors and lawyer who took down the real Duntsch. (The doctor was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2017 after being convicted of mutilating one of his patients.)
Come on Dr. Dead‘s debut, Jackson said exclusively We weekly how he prepared for the intense project. “I felt like I had the emotional bandwidth to handle something like this,” he said in July 2021. “It was more than I even expected, but it was clear to me from the beginning that this was going to happen . be quite a heavy burden.”
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He added: ‘It wasn’t until we finished it and I put the whole thing down that I realized how hard it had actually been over time. I fooled myself that I was able to leave it at the office. It was incredibly dark. The material is dark.”
Jackson also hinted at a 2022 Variety interview he was looking forward to playing a different kind of medical professional in the future after the drama of Dr. Dead.
“I’m happy to not be playing someone as psychologically intense as Christopher Duntsch for a while, because the weight of that was quite intense during the filming of the show,” he told the outlet at the time.
Together with Zoom And Dr. DeadJackson is known for his roles in Little fires everywhere, The affair, Fatal attraction And Dawson’s Creek.