Kathleen Rose Perkins Joins Doogie Howser’s Reboot – Deadline

Exclusive: Episodes The graduate Kathleen Rose Perkins He was appointed as the lead Opposite Elizabeth Lee Peyton In the upcoming Disney + comic series Doji Kamaluha, MD, a Doogie Howser MD Reboot from How do I meet your mother? And the Fresh from the boat Graduate Courtney Kang and Twentieth Television, part of Disney Television Studios.

Written by Kang and the site in present-day Hawaii, Doji Kamaluha, MD Reimagine Neil Patrick Harris starring in the half-hour medical drama with her lead. The film is about Doogie Kameāloha (Lee), a 16-year-old mixed-race girl who is adjusting to an emerging medical career and teenage life. Lahila – and complicates matters too – directs her family, including her fiery Irish mother Dr. Clara Hannon (Perkins), who is also chief of staff at the hospital and Lahella’s superintendent, and her father, a “local boy” from Hawaii struggling to accept that his daughter is no longer his young daughter.

Doji Kamaluha, MD It goes for a double gender swap as part of the topic of women’s empowerment. at Doogie Howser, Created before Delay Stephen Bushko and David E. Kelly, Doogie’s father is a doctor who works in the same hospital as his son; Doogie’s mother was originally a homemaker.

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The role brings together Perkins and Kang, who both worked on ABC / 20th TV Fresh from the boat. Perkins reprized the role of Mey-Mey from 2015-19, and Kang was co-executive producer from 2015-2017.

Bochco’s widow, Dayna Bochco, and her son Jesse Bochco, act as executive producers of the reboot, along with Kang, Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar. 20th Television is the studio.

Perkins is best known for her five-season run, starring opposite Matt LeBlanc in the Showtime comedy Episodes. Most recently, she starred in the Netflix series coming of age I’m not okay with this. It is also repeated in John Stamos’ face Big shot, Kelley’s upcoming Disney + / ABC Signature series. Perkins is represented by Gersh and Trademark Talent.