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Watson is headed to CBS in January, and the network is giving viewers a look at the new mystery series centered around the character of Dr. John Watson from Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. A trailer has now been released.

Morris Chestnut, Eve Harlow, Peter Mark Kendall, Ritchie Coster, Inga Schlingmann, and Rochelle Aytes star in the CBS series set in current times. It follows Watson (Chestnut) after the death of his friend, the legendary detective.

The series is set six months after the events that ended Holmes’ life, and Watson has returned to his work as a medical doctor at the Holmes Clinic in Pittsburgh. However, the evil Professor Moriarty is not done with Watson just yet. The pair will have their own battle to fight.

Other characters include aloof Ingrid Derian (Harlow), a secretive and highly-skilled neurologist; identical twins Stephens Croft and Adam Croft (Kendall), the clinic’s infectious disease and functional medicine specialists; Sasha Lubbock (Schlingmann), a charismatic specialist in rheumatology and immunology; Ritchie Coster (Johnson), the clinic’s administrative aide and Holmes’ and Watson’s former criminal acquaintance; and clinic medical director Mary Morstan (Aytes), a noted East Coast surgeon and Watson’s ex-wife.

CBS teases that “Watson is a medical show with a strong investigative spine, featuring a modern version of one of history’s greatest detectives as he turns his attention from solving crimes to solving medical mysteries.”

The trailer for Watson is below. The series arrives on CBS on January 26th.

What do you think? Do you plan to watch this new CBS series when it launches in early 2025?