Disney+ is bringing Doogie Howser, M.D. to a brand new technology with a reboot of the basic Neil Patrick Harris-starring comedy, set to concentrate on a half-Asian, half-white 16-year-old lady who works as a health care provider in Hawaii, Variety originally reported.
The brand new present, which at the moment has a working title of Doogie Kealoha, M.D., comes from Fresh Off the Boat and How I Met Your Motherwriter-producer Kourtney Kang. Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar, who additionally labored on Recent Off the Boat, will function government producers. Dayna and Jesse Bochco, the spouse and son of Doogie Howser, M.D. co-creator Steven Bochco, may even government produce.
In case you want a refresher, the unique present adopted a teenage medical prodigy — performed by Harris — who labored as a health care provider whereas balancing the issues regular teenagers have, unexpectedly. With High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and the upcoming Mighty Ducks show, this newest reboot simply proves as soon as and for all that Disney+ may be very a lot within the nostalgia enterprise.
So … can we begin putting bets now on whether or not Harris will reprise his function on the brand new present?
