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On the FOX television network, January marks the launch of a new series, beginning with “Best Medicine,” based on the British medical comedy-drama series “Doc Martin” that ran for ten seasons.
In the British series, a successful surgeon leaves his London practice to become a primary care physician in a sleepy fishing village, where he spent time during his youth.
The good doctor is not the right fit for the townsfolk due to his abrasive attitude and lack of bedside manner that alienates most people. Moreover, his luxury car and flashy wardrobe also rub the locals the wrong way.
The new FOX series features Josh Charles as Dr. Martin Best, a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves his illustrious career in Boston to become a general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child.
Martin’s blunt and borderline rude bedside manner rubs the quirky, needy locals the wrong way, and he quickly alienates the town, even though he’s the only medical help they’ve got.
Although Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he’s just desperate to be left alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged into the middle of their personal chaos.
What the locals don’t know is that Martin’s terse demeanor masks a debilitating new phobia and childhood drama that prevents him from experiencing true intimacy with anyone.
But tenacity is the creed of everyone in the small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered. “Best Medicine” also stars Abigail Spencer and Annie Potts.
The 2003 Belgian action thriller film “De Zaak Alzheimer,” based on the novel of the same title, followed an assassin who agreed to one last contract hit despite a recent diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.
The assignment required the killer to kill two people, with the second victim a twelve-year-old girl who had been pimped by her father. The assassin’s creed did not involve killing children, thereby crossing his employer who puts out a contract on his hitman.
The FOX series “Memory of a Killer” stars Patrick Dempsey as Angelo Doyle, a hitman leading a dangerous double life while hiding an even deadlier personal secret. Angelo’s daughter Maria (Odeya Rush) only knows her father as a photocopier salesman.
Starring opposite Dempsey in the role of Dutch, Michael Imperioli is Angelo’s oldest friend and an accomplished Italian chef whose restaurant in the Bronx is a front for his criminal enterprise, which includes hiring Angelo as a hitman.
With a family history of dementia, Angelo has been able to juggle keeping his professional and personal lives separate. But now beginning to lose his memory, Angelo poses a potential threat to the criminal enterprise.
Exceptionally resourceful and talented, Angelo is about to be tested like never before, and now every minute counts. This is made more difficult when he discovers his wife’s recent death may not have been an accident.
When someone comes after his pregnant daughter, it’s clear the walls between his lives have been breached. Angelo must stop whoever’s coming for his family by looking into his past hits for clues, and the list is very long.
Angelo must hunt down his mortal enemy while continuing to carry out hits without giving away his diagnosis and still make it home in time to cook dinner for his daughter.
Richard Harmon’s Joe is a budding hitman working for Angelo and Dutch. Stuck with more routine work of gathering intel, Joe also faces a precarious position as the witness to Angelo’s mental decline.
The perils for Dempsey’s hitman in decline results in high-stakes drama for “Memory of a Killer.” As the wall between Angelo’s two worlds crumbles, the series should live up to being an interesting thriller.
Joe Rogan, who has his own very popular podcast, was the original host for NBC’s “Fear Factor,” a game show that challenged contestants to face their most primal fears by competing in various bold stunts.
FOX is reviving “Fear Factor” in a new format to be hosted by Johnny Knoxville, best known as a fearless stunt performer who was the co-creator and star of the MTV reality stunt show “Jackass” that resulted in several subsequent movies.
The iconic reality competition show is coming back bigger, bolder and more daring as “Fear Factor: House of Fear.” Dropped into an unforgiving, remote location, a group of strangers will live together under one roof, and face mind-blowing stunts.
Being isolated in a harsh environment challenges the contestants to play a devious social game where trust is scarce and strategy turns fear into a strategic tool. Only one person will conquer all their fears and walk away with the massive grant prize.
As host, Knoxville will not subject himself to the severe injuries and health issues endured during his reckless stunts in the “Jackass” franchise. No more concussions, herniated discs, torn tendons, and broken bones and fractures.
Tim Riley writes film and television reviews for Lake County News.