The Good Doctor is an American medical drama television series based on the 2013 award-winning South Korean series of the same name. Freddie Highmore stars as Shaun Murphy, a young autistic savant surgical resident at the fictional San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. The series debuted on September 25, 2017, and has been renewed for a second season on March 7, 2018, and a third season on September 23, 2019. The fourth season is expected to premiere in November 2020, and the fifth and final season is scheduled to premiere on December 2, 2019, and December 13, 2019 respectively.
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The Good Doctor is an American medical drama television series based on the 2013 award-winning South Korean series of the same name. The series stars Freddie Highmore as Shaun Murphy, a young autistic savant surgical resident at the fictional San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. Antonia Thomas, Hill Harper, Christina Chang, Richard Schiff, Will Yun Lee, Fiona Gubelmann, Paige Spara, and Tamlyn Tomita also star in the show. The show is produced by Sony Pictures Television and ABC Studios, in association with production companies Shore Z Productions, 3AD, and Entermedia. The Good Doctor has received mixed reviews from critics, with particular praise given to Highmore’s performance, and strong television ratings but criticism for the storylines while the portrayal of autism divided critics. In February 2020, ABC renewed the series for a fourth season which premiered on November 2, 2020. On August 6, 2020, it was reported that the fourth season opener is set to focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. The series debuted on September 25, 2017, and has been renewed for a second season on March 7, 2018, and a third season on September 23, 2019. The fourth season is expected to premiere in November 2020, and the fifth and final season is scheduled to premiere on December 2, 2019, and December 13, 2019 respectively.
The sixth and seventh seasons are expected to air in spring and summer of 2020, with the final season airing in May 2020. The seventh and eighth seasons are scheduled to be released in May and June of 2020 and October and November of 2019, respectively, for a total of 18 episodes. The eighth and ninth seasons will be released on October 31, 2020 and November 1, 2020 respectively, and will be the last season of the series to be aired in the United States. The final season will be aired on November 28, 2020,. The series is primarily filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, and it is set in San Jose, California. The first season was ordered to pilot in January 2017, but CBS did not pick up the project and it moved to Sony Pictures television, with a put pilot commitment from ABC in October 2016. In May 2014, CBS Television Studios began development on an American remake of the hit South Korean medical drama Good Doctor with Daniel Dae Kim as producer. The story of an autistic pediatric surgeon was to be set in Boston and projected toAir in August 2015. However, CBS decided against creating a pilot. Because Kim felt so strongly about the series, he bought back the rights from CBS and brought on David Shore, creator of the Fox medical drama House, to develop the series.
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