Sherlock Holmes is dead. Probably. We think. The new CBS series Watson kicks off in Switzerland, where we find a determined Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) chasing after Holmes, who's busy fighting his arch nemesis,

In CBS' new medical mystery drama, Morris Chestnut leads a team of capable doctors who don't need to be stuck in Sherlock Holmes' mythology.

Set six months after Sherlock Holmes' death, the new CBS series stars Morris Chestnut. When does it come out and how can you watch?

Morris Chestnut stars as Dr. John Watson in this medical drama that is a warmer, fuzzier version of "House," another Sherlock Holmes-derived series.

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In the role of Dr. Watson you will see Morris Chestnut. In addition to him, the series stars Eve Harlow as Ingrid Derian, Peter Mark Kendall as Stephens Croft and Adam Croft, Inga Schlingmann as Sasha Lubbock, Ritchie Coster as Shinwell Johnson, Rochelle Aytes as Mary Morstan and Randall Park as Moriarty.

Morris Chestnut stars as the famed detective's sidekick, who's grieving the apparent death of his mentor while running a Pittsburgh clinic specializing in rare disorders.

Perrineau, a costar of Chestnut’s in the Best Man film series, has been delivering powerful performances for decades now, including his too-short Lost stint. He’d undoubtedly put his own stamp on the character.

The actor stars as a version of the Arthur Conan Doyle character in a series set in the present day, following an American geneticist in the wake of Sherlock Holmes’s death.