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Andi Mack star Peyton Elizabeth Lee s next lead TV role announced
The Disney+ darling strikes again.
Doogie Howser reboot.
Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. and the series will be set in Hawaii and span 10 episodes. Frazer HarrisonGetty Images
The show will also star
Episodes actress Kathleen Rose Perkins as Doogie s Irish mother.
The original Doogie Howser series ran from 1989 to 1993 and starred Neil Patrick Harris as the titular genius. Getty Images
Andi Mack series coming to an end in 2019.
It also follows her starring in the Disney+ movie
Peyton Elizabeth Lee & Kathleen Rose Perkins to Star in ‘Doogie Howser’ Reboot on Disney+ The Doogie Howser reboot has found its lead! Disney+ has announced that Peyton Elizabeth Lee will be starring in the upcoming series Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. –…
Female-Led Doogie Howser Reboot: Peyton Elizabeth Lee Lands Title Role TVLine 14/01/2021
TV’s erstwhile Andi Mack has landed the title role in Disney+’s
Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., a female-led reimagining of the classic ABC medical dramedy, the streamer announced Thursday.
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Set in modern-day Hawaii, the 10-episode comedy follows Lahela “Doogie” Kameāloha, “a mixed race 16-year-old girl, juggling a budding medical career and life as a teenager,” according to the official logline. “Guiding Lahela (and also complicating things) is her family, including her spit-fire Irish mother (played by
Episodes‘ Kathleen Rose Perkins) who’s also her supervisor at the hospital, and her ‘Local Boy’ father struggling to accept that his daughter is no longer his little girl.”
Could this
be any more anticipated? By the time this unscripted special airs, more than a year will have passed since
THR exclusively reported it was in the works. Yes, we know, you were on a (pandemic-related filming) break, but the interest in this special and the original series has only grown after the former NBC comedy became a megahit for a second generation as new audiences found the series on Netflix. And yes, we re aware that this doesn t technically qualify to be on this list since it s not a new scripted series, but the interest in this is greater than Joey s love of sandwiches.