EXCLUSIVE: A month and a half after the painful cancellation of So Assist Me Todd, important solid member Inga Schlingmann has been tapped as a sequence common on one other CBS procedural, the upcoming Watson, headlined by Morris Chestnut. That’s each excellent news for So Assist Me Todd followers, because it retains a chunk of the present on CBS, and dangerous information, because it makes the sequence’ finish everlasting. There was by no means a practical likelihood however followers had been holding out hope that So Assist Me Todd may discover a residence elsewhere.
Additionally set as a lead in Watson is Eve Harlow (The Evening Agent). Each Schlingmann and Harlow are extending their relationship with Watson producer CBS Studios coming off So Assist Me Todd and the ultimate season of Star Trek: Discovery, respectively.
Along with Chestnut, the 2 be a part of a solid member from one other CBS procedural, S.W.A.T.‘s Rochelle Aytes, in addition to Peter Mark Kendall and Ritchie Coster.
Created by Craig Sweeny, Watson is a medical present with a powerful investigative backbone, that includes a contemporary model of one among historical past’s biggest detectives (Chestnut) as he turns his consideration from fixing crimes to fixing medical mysteries.
Harlow will play Ingrid Derian, an completed neurologist whom Dr. Watson (Chestnut) recruits to work at his clinic not solely as a result of he acknowledges her indeniable talent, however as a result of she herself is a thriller Watson appears ahead to fixing. Ingrid reminds him of his late good friend, Sherlock Holmes, and values her ruthless and typically questionable practices… however the remainder of her teammates will marvel — and fear — who’s the true Ingrid Derian, and what’s she hiding?
Schlingmann will painting the unflappable Dr. Sasha Lubbock. Whereas most individuals query how she had the time and vitality to double-board in each rheumatology and immunology, Watson (Chestnut) is aware of it’s as a result of Sasha thrives in bifurcated situations. Having grown up torn between two households — her delivery dad and mom in central China, and her adoptive, non secular household in Dallas, Texas — Sasha’s southern appeal is parallel solely to the ambition that landed her in one of many world’s most prestigious genetics clinics.
The daughter of a German and Taiwanese immigrants, Schlingmann has some medical background, having shadowed cardiothoracic surgeons at NY Presbyterian Hospital whereas attending NYU and having labored as a delivery doula with Americorp post-graduation. In her performing debut, she performed a nurse in an episode of CBS/CBS Studios’ Hawaii 5-0.
Schlingmann is coming off enjoying Susan Yang for 2 seasons on CBS’ dramedy So Assist Me Todd. She is repped by McKegney Administration and Bloch Regulation.
The 100 alumna Harlow can be recognized for her roles on NBC’s Heroes: Reborn and Disney+’s Brokers of SHIELD. She not too long ago performed sadistic hitwoman Ellen on Netflix’s breakout hit The Evening Agent and may be seen within the ultimate season of Paramount+’s Star Trek: Discovery as outlaw Moll. She is repped by GGA, Genuine Expertise & Literary Administration, and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.