Tonight at 8p on Fox, the town goes crazy again on Best Medicine. This time, it is over a blueberry pie contest that all the entrants take very seriously.
Dr. Best (Josh Charles) is confused why he has an empty waiting room, and Elaine (Cree) tells him that everyone is getting ready for the contest.
One of the patients who cancelled on him is his aunt (Annie Potts), so he makes a house call and learns more about her health, and he is not going to like what he finds out.
She is not the only one who has a medical issue. Sheriff Mark (Josh Segarra) also needs to see Dr. Best, and you will be shocked by why. But not as much as him.
He better get better quickly because he is going to be needed at the contest. What happens after the pies are eaten is why I love this medical dramedy.
Best Medicine keeps proving it is more heart than anything else, even if they pretend that Dr. Best doesn’t have one.
Then at 9p, get ready for an episode that is going to change everything on Doc.
Before we get to that, Amy (Molly Parker) has a patient who desperately needs a liver transplant, and her granddaughter wants to give it to her. However, the grandmother doesn’t want it, even if it means she is going to die. There is a reason why she is so dead against it. Will Amy be able to make her change her mind before it is too late?
Dr. Joan Ridley (Felicity Huffman) has been keeping her cancer a secret from everyone. Tonight, she goes to her doctor at another hospital to get an update on her condition and tells everyone she is going to a medical conference. However, Sonya (Anya Banerjee) and T.J. (Patrick Walker) suspect something is up with her. Will they be able to figure it out?
Finally, Richard (Scott Wolf) is back, and he is there to talk about a settlement with the hospital about his firing. But he wants more, a lot more. Will he get it?
The episode is so good that I hate that we have to wait a week to find out what happens next.
Tonight at 8p on Fox’s new medical drama, Best Medicine, the town has come down with something, and Dr. Best (Josh Charles) thinks it is something contagious. Therefore, he cancels Port Wenn’s beloved monthly baked bean supper to stop the spread. But hate towards Dr. Best is spreading faster than the mystery illness. Will his aunt Sarah (Annie Potts) turn against him too? After all, she has been living there forever, and he is new to the area.
To make matters worse for him, he meets up with his old bully, who hasn’t changed since they were kids. And did I mention his bully sponsors the monthly dinner?
While he is dealing with that, Louisa (Abigail Spencer) and her ex, the town sheriff, Mark (Josh Segarra), are trying to navigate their new status in a small town after she called off their wedding. And he has already moved on with someone close to her.
Finally, there is Elaine (Cree), Dr. Best’s assistant, who does everything but her job. She is also not happy with her boss because no patients means that she cannot film her YouTube game show.
Will Dr. Best be a hero or remain a zero by the end of the episode? You will have to tune in for another heartfelt, funny, and medical-solving episode to find out. Check it out, I promise you that it is just what the doctor ordered.
I love medical shows. So much so that I have been watching shows from other countries, like Australia and Korea, on streaming.
Therefore, when we get one in the States, I have to check it out. Best Medicine, which is based on the British show Doc Martin, was no exception. And it is exceptional!
Dr. Martin Best (Josh Charles) was a big-time surgeon from Boston, who needs a change in his life, which is explained as the series goes on. So he applies for a job as a local doctor in the small town of Port Wenn, a place where he spent his summers as a kid with his aunt Sarah (Annie Potts).
Since he was a surgeon in a major city, he is all about medicine, and that is it. He does not like talking to people, and Port Wenn is all about knowing everything about everyone.
How will someone who hates socializing handle being a doctor in a friendly town that is all about it? That is the main premise of the show.
The other part of it is that he is a doctor. And in tonight’s premiere episode, after the football game on Fox, the town has a boob problem. His first two patients suddenly have bigger boobs. That is not that weird, right? Considering they are both men, it is. What is causing it? I am not the doctor, so I cannot tell you.
But I can tell you about the assistant whom he inherited from the previous, late doctor. Elaine (Cree) would rather be a YouTube star than his assistant, and it shows. To say she is incompetent would be putting it mildly. But he decides to keep her because she can bandage patients, and he can’t. Why? Because he can’t handle the sight of blood. Weird?
Not weird is his caring aunt, who is so happy to have her nephew back, even if he doesn’t want to be there.
What will keep him there? Louisa (Abigail Spencer) is a school teacher who just called off her wedding to the town sheriff, Mark (Josh Segarra), after dating him for eight years. They were high school sweethearts until she left for NY. However, when she moved home, they reconnected, until they didn’t.
While their love affair is over, ours is just beginning with Best Medicine. It is a show that is more about the people in a lakeside town than small-town medicine. But there is enough of it for medical show junkies, like me. But I am tuning in for the specialness of the residents of Port Wenn. As a big city girl, I have always wanted to live in a place like Port Wenn. Since I can’t, I get to live out my fantasy in a show such as this one.
Oh, and while Best Medicine might be drama, there are a lot of comedic moments throughout the episodes. And I am not only talking about the brilliant expressions that Charles does with his face.
Plus, how can you not watch a show with Annie Potts and Didi Conn, who we need more of.
Best Medicine moves to Tuesday starting this week.
Fox is adding another doctor to its schedule next month, and it looks like it will be as good for post-Christmas headaches as two aspirins.
The series centers on Dr. Martin Best (Emmy Award-nominee Josh 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. Unfortunately, Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he’s all they’ve got. Although Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he’s really just desperate to be left the hell alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged right smack into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds and fantasies. What the locals don’t know is that Martin’s terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and childhood trauma that prevent him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered.
Fox announced last month when their January shows would debut, but they decided to change things and move their premieres up.
Get your calendars ready because you don’t want to miss these shows.
UPDATED FOX WINTER 2026 PREMIERE DATES RECAP
(All Times ET/PT Except as Noted)
Sunday Dec. 28
8:00-8:30 PM ET / Live to All Time Zones Animal Control (Special Advance Season 4 Premiere)
8:30-9:00 PM ET / Live to All Time Zones The Simpsons (New Episode, Special Time)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT Krapopolis (New Episode)
9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT Bob’s Burgers (New Episode)
Sunday, Jan. 4
8:00-9:00 PM ET / Live to All Time Zones Best Medicine (Special Advance Series Premiere)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT Krapopolis (New Episode)
9:30-10:00 PMET/PT The Simpsons (New Episode, Special Time)
Tuesday, Jan. 6
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Best Medicine (Series Premiere Episode)
9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT Doc (Winter Premiere)
Thursday, Jan. 15
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Hell’s Kitchen (New Episode)
9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT Animal Control (Time Period Premiere, All-New Episode)
9:30-10:00 PM ET/PT Going Dutch (Season 2 Premiere)
Sunday, Jan. 25
6:00-10:00PM ET / Live to All Times Zones NFC Championship Game
10:00PM-11:10 PM ET / Live to All Time Zones Memory of a Killer (Series Premiere)
Monday, Jan. 26
8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT Extracted (Season 2 Premiere)
9:00PM-10:00 PM ET/PT Memory of a Killer (Time Period Premiere, All-New Episode)
