Broadcast Spring 2026 TV Review:

 

CBS:

Y: Marshalls: 

CIA:

NBC: 

The Rise & Fall of Reggie Dinkins:

ABC: 

RJ Decker:

FOX:

Best Medicine: Martin Best (played by Josh Charles of The Good Wife & Dead Poets Society) is a brilliant surgeon who abruptly leaves Boston to become the general practitioner in a quaint East Coast fishing village where he spent summers as a child.  He struggles to integrate with the locals as well as well while reconnecting with his aunt, a local lobster woman. He has a pathological blood phobia which developed during an operation on a young girl, back in Boston. Martin can expertly address any medical ailment or mystery in this idiosyncratic town, he's really just desperate to be left alone. Instead, he keeps getting dragged right smack into the middle of their personal chaos, feuds and fantasies. But tenacity is the creed of everyone in their small village, and the people who live there may be exactly what the doctor ordered. 

Verdict: Renewed. Based on the current lineup at Fox right now this show is better than what they have on for one hour shows. A bad medical drama that has a hooky lifetime or hallmark movie plot is the only medical drama that it is going up against on the network. The biggest issue is that this show seems better suited for a half-hour time slot and not an hour because some of the plot can be resolved a lot quicker and not go on-on like they seem to do. It has its moment of humor but is too much of a drama to be a mixture of both. Charles does a great job of playing a straight laced oriented no-nonsense doctor. He also plays the straight man in a show full of kooky people who all do their weird things while he has to witness all of it. Having Abigail Spencer, Annie Potts and Josh Segura as supporting cast is a nice touch since Potts is playing his aunt who tells it like it is to him. We just have to worry about another show with Spencer, her last two shows have been given the ax quickly. Having a theme song is a nice touch since most shows do not; but his assistant is so annoying I am unsure what the point was? You could have had a person who doesn’t speak or even be on camera to save money and time. Lastly when Fox said goodbye to the Resident and 911 with their cancellations it was the hope they might actually put on good one hour dramas in the medical or first responder world. They chose this show based on a British show so it’s not even an original idea and like the other medical drama on this network. 

Memory of a Killer:  Angelo Doyle (played by Patrick Dempsey of Grey’s Anatomy & Maid of Honor) is a contract killer and an upstate Cooperstown photocopier salesman and father. Having built and maintained a brick wall between his two worlds, Angelo has seamlessly juggled and compartmentalized for years. But wow that's all about to change, because an attempt is made on his pregnant daughter's life but also his mind might be failing him as two lives start to crash together. Alzheimer's is a foe he can't outrun, and he knows too well how this ends, as his older brother is already lost to the condition. It is based on the 2003 Belgian film De Zaak Alzheimer and the 1985 novel of the same name. 

Verdict: Canceled. It looked like a cool idea to get Dempsey back to network television and so is the premise of the show but again Fox cannot come up with an original idea. Their other two one-dramas on the air “Doc” and “Best Medicine” no matter your opinion are not original ideas. This seems better as a TV-movie or just a movie, which guess what? It was a movie so it should probably stay that way. It has a good supporting cast like Michael Imperioli(of The Sopranos & Goodfellas) who is Angelo’s boss running this hit man business but is a restaurant owner. His experience in mobster type movies and shows fits him well in this role. Also seeing Gina Torres (of Suits & 911: Lone Star) poking around as FBI is nice since she has been in a few first responder shows is a nice casting choice. There is also too much going on with his pregnant daughter’s life with her husband being a deadbeat and the will they won’t they between the local detective who looked into her mom’s/Angelo’s wife’s death. What is cool is his base of operations, his place of living and cover story of his personal life to his boss and his cover story to his family on what he does. Then you got his boss’ nephew who works for him but is still new at it and then Angelo’s brother who is in medical care for his Alzheimer. You also add his past coming back to haunt him or not which isn’t clear. Maybe if they streamlined it better it would be good but you know ever know what Fox is going to do since they had two bad shows on for multiple seasons but cancelled a few good ones. The hope for Dempsey’s sake is maybe the writing gets better as the season goes so it is less confusing for us. Maybe even Fox gives it another season but how much can you tell if he is starting to rapidly lose it with his Alzheimer's getting worse by the day merging his two lives together? Only reason to tune in all season is to see where everything leads to in the end.