STAR TREK: DISCOVERY's Eve Harlow Set To Star In Sherlock Holmes-Inspired Medical Drama
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY's Eve Harlow will be joining medical drama WATSON when it begins filming this month. Image: Paramount+.
A little over a week ago, Moll was sentenced to imprisonment in Star Trek: Discovery’s series finale. With a line hinting that Kovich (David Cronenberg) had plans for her, one wonders if the character would have returned for the show’s sixth season, had one been in the offing. Regardless of what the plans may have been for her, the actress who played her, Eve Harlow, has now been booked as a regular on an upcoming CBS series.
According to Deadline, Harlow has been tapped to appear as a lead in Watson, a medical drama set in modern-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The series will follow Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut, The Best Man films and series), who is mourning the death of his friend and partner, Sherlock Holmes. Now heading up a clinic specializing in rare disorders, Watson will find himself pitted against Holmes’ killer, the evil Moriarty.
Harlow has been cast as Ingrid Derian, “an accomplished neurologist whom Dr. Watson recruits to work at his clinic not only because he recognizes her indisputable skill, but because she herself is a mystery Watson looks forward to solving.” Despite her ruthless and questionable medical practices (or maybe because of them?) Derian reminds Watson of Holmes. But the rest of his team wonder what she’s hiding.
Watson is being created by Craig Sweeney, best known for his work on science fiction series The 4400 and another modern-day take on the Holmes canon, Elementary, but Trek fans may recognize his name as a consulting producer on the first season of Star Trek: Discovery, writer of that season’s “Context Is for Kings” and an executive producer on the upcoming Star Trek: Section 31 film.
Watson, which is set to film this month in Vancouver, also stars Rochelle Aytes (S.W.A.T.) as Mary Morstan, Peter Mark Kendall (The Americans) as identical twins Stephens and Adam Croft, Inga Schlingmann (So Help Me Todd) as Sasha Lubbock and Ritchie Coster (True Detective) as Shinwell Johnson. It will premiere as a mid-season replacement during the 2024-25 television season on Paramount+.
T is the Managing Editor for Daily Star Trek News and a contributing writer for Sherlock Holmes Magazine and a Shakespeare nerd. He may have been the last professional Stage Manager to work with Leonard Nimoy, has worked Off-Broadway and regionally, and is the union Stage Manager for Legacy Theatre, where he is currently working with Julie Andrews. after which he’ll be working on Richard III at Elm Shakespeare Company.
