"Long before that, the biggest drama in the world was House, which was set in a hospital but featured a mercurial genius solving baffling mysteries once the House-Home-Holmes penny dropped, you knew you were watching Sherlock in disguise. Watson is the latest attempt by US network television to keep the Conan Doyle canon firing, and it's a straight cross between House and Elementary."
"Morris Chestnut is Dr John Watson, who is an American practising medicine in present-day Pittsburgh, but is also a war veteran who, when the show aired its first season last year, had just finished a stint cracking crimes in London with Sherlock Holmes. Showrunner Craig Sweeny, formerly a writer/producer on Elementary, gave his new Watson a litter of eager doctor pups who, like the gang who used to trail around behind Dr House, were always a step behind their boss."
American television has produced multiple modern adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, including Elementary and Watson, which relocate characters to US cities and rework character roles. Elementary moved Holmes to New York and gender-swapped Watson and Moriarty while maintaining procedural detective elements and longevity. House earlier adapted Holmes' archetype into a medical setting with a genius diagnostician solving medical mysteries. Watson centers on Morris Chestnut as an American Dr John Watson, a war veteran and former collaborator with Sherlock, leading a team of doctors in Pittsburgh and deliberately blending influences from House and Elementary.
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