Debuts this evening, Tuesday 19 August 2025on Canale 5 and streaming on Mediaset Infinity, the TV series Watson starring Morris Chestnut (seen in The Resident) In the role of Dr. John Watson. No case of homonymy, at the center of the new TV series there is precisely the famous collaborator of Sherlock Holmes, The character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. However, Watson is set in the present and has no link with other TV series such as Sherlock or Elementary that re -adapt and modernize the events of the historic brilliant investigator.
Watson However, it is a medical drama. In fact, John Watson after Sherlock Holmes’s alleged death (or the alleged death) at the hands of Moriarty, returns to be a doctor. The TV series produced by Kiotal Entertainment for CBS who broadcast it in the last television season, therefore starts from the story The Final Problem by Conan Doyle, published in 1893 and with the clash between Holmes and Moriarty at the center in Reichebach Falls in Switzerland.
The TV series is set a Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania But he was shot in Vancouver between TV studios and campus of the University of British Columbia, only some external scenes were shot in Pittsburgh.