![]() ![]() Julie Warner’s Lou, Ben’s ambulance driver and a would-be lawyer, makes her first appearance striding out a lake buck naked. It is anyway, since Ben is saddled with a love interest who does the heartfelt bit for the both of them. It’s probably just as well that Fox doesn’t bring much gravity to the role if he were any moonier and heartfelt, the film might really be exposed as a crock. Fox, as in “The Secret of My Success” and the “Back to the Future” films, goes in for a lot of scampering here. Why did she bother with this dinky cameo? Fonda has the power and the sass to become a major actress. Bridget Fonda turns up as a Hollywood-struck belle and, as usual, she’s much stronger than her role allows for. The cornball rowdiness is partially redeemed by the good cast, which includes Woody Harrelson as a lunky insurance salesman, David Ogden Stiers as the mayor, Roberts Blossom as a judge, Barnard Hughes as the town’s decrepit doctor and Frances Sternhagen as a local busybody. Even “Local Hero,” directed by fellow Scotsman Bill Forsyth, gets pillaged. Caton-Jones, perhaps because he’s Scottish, feels free to indulge himself with every piece of small-town, movie-derived Americana he can train his camera on he’s an equal-opportunity borrower. “Doc Hollywood” (rated PG-13 for brief nudity) draws its energy almost exclusively from cliche. Preston Sturges, another of the film’s models, gave his country types such roisterous, ornery life that it would never occur to us to call them hicks. Capra, whose “It’s a Wonderful Life” shows up in a millisecond clip, at least leavened his corn with sharp small-town observation. (The movie is closer to “Green Acres,” though that show seems almost Shavian by comparison.)īut the fantasy has no texture. Next to it, the Mayberry of “The Andy Griffith Show” is austere. Everyone lives together in higgledy-piggledy harmony: blacks and whites, young and old, rich and poor. The network has yet to make decisions on the two 911 shows, The Resident or Fantasy Island.Grady, which bills itself as the Squash Capital of the South, is supposed to be an idealization of the finer things in life-in other words, everything that Beverly Hills isn’t. Kligman, Steinberg ( For Life, The Last Ship) and Stoff will executive produce.ĭoc joins second-year shows Accused and Alert: Missing Persons Unit and the third season of The Cleaning Lady on Fox’s drama slate for 2023-24. The full description of Doc reads, “After a brain injury erases the last eight years of her life, Amy 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.” ![]() The format has been sold to a dozen other countries and has spawned seven local versions before the Fox order. The show from Fremantle’s Lux Vide debuted on Rai 1 in 2020 and was the network’s biggest series premiere in more than a decade. “ 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.”įrancesco Arlanch and Viola Rispoli created the Italian series, titled Doc - Nelle tue mani. “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 scripted programming at Fox Entertainment. Jay Leno Pauses Production on 'You Bet Your Life' Amid Writers Strike
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