Medical Drama ‘Doc’, Based On The Italian Series, Ordered By Fox For 2023-24

Fox has given a straight-to-series order to Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment Studios for the medical procedural drama Doc. The series, which will launch in the 2023-24 season, comes from Executive Producers Barbie Kligman (Magnum P.I., Secrets and Lies, Private Practice), Hank Steinberg (For Life, Without a Trace) and Erwin Stoff (I Am Legend, The Matrix). Based on the Italian drama Doc — Nelle tue mani (which translates to “Doc — In your hands”) from Italian producer Lux Vide, Fox’s upcoming version of Doc centers on the hard-charging, brilliant Dr. Amy Elias, Chief of Internal and Family Medicine at Westside Hospital in Minneapolis.

The logline for Doc: After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Dr. Amy Elias must navigate an unfamiliar world where she has no recollection of patients she’s treated, colleagues she’s crossed, the soulmate she divorced, the man she now loves and the tragedy that caused her to push everyone away. She can rely only on her estranged 17-year-old daughter, whom she remembers as a 9-year-old, and a handful of devoted friends, as she struggles to continue practicing medicine, despite having lost nearly a decade of knowledge and experience.

“This moving and heroic medical drama is the very definition of storytelling excellence and what audiences have come to expect from FOX,” said Michael Thorn, President of Scripted Programming, Fox Entertainment in a statement. “Doc explores the raw emotion, redemption and resilience of the human spirit in ways we rarely see, and for that, we credit the creative leadership of Barbie, Hank and Erwin, who we know will bring this story to spectacular life, this extraordinary source material and our deeply valued partners at Sony.”

“We are thrilled with Barbie and Hank’s inspiring take on the emotionally captivating and globally acclaimed Italian series, and we couldn’t have a better partner in FOX to bring the format to the U.S.,” added Katherine Pope, President, Sony Pictures Television Studios.

The series order by Fox for Doc follows the news last week of the renewals of dramas Accused and Alert: Missing Persons Unit for sophomore seasons. Fox also recently renewed drama The Cleaning Lady for a third season.

If the title Doc sounds familiar, it was previously used for the former Pax TV 2001-04 medical drama starring Billy Ray Cyrus, and the two season (1975-76) CBS sitcom starring Barnard Hughes.

No casting has been announced for this upcoming Doc.