Fox Orders ‘Doc’ Medical Drama Series Based On Italian Format From Barbie Kligman, Hank Steinberg & Sony TV
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a straight-to-series order to medical procedural drama Doc, a U.S. adaptation of the popular Italian series Doc — Nelle tue mani, to premiere during the 2023-24 season.
The project, which landed at the network in February in competitive situation with a script-to-series commitment, hails from writer, executive producer and showrunner Barbie Kligman (Magnum P.I.), executive producers Hank Steinberg (For Life) and 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff, Sony Pictures Television, which acquired the international rights to the format in 2020, and Fox Entertainment Studios.
The series order for Doc follows last week’s Season 2 renewal of the network’s freshman dramas Accused and Alert: Missing Persons Unit, both of which are also co-productions of Sony Pictures Television and Fox Entertainment Studios.
Sony TV, which has been pulling away from broadcast over its financial challenges, especially for independent studios, has emerged as a leading supplier to now-independent Fox, figuring out a co-production template that has yielded series Alert, Accused, Doc, as well as Fantasy Island, which is done under a lower cost model, and upcoming animated series Universal Basic Guys/The Hoagie Bros. (wt).
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