By Alicia Rancilio Two TV favorites get blended when "Watson" debuts on CBS on Sunday, Jan. 26: A medical drama and Sherlock Holmes. Morris Chestnut stars in the modern-day procedural, which ...

Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut), the onetime partner of the famous Sherlock, is grieving the ... treating rare diseases at the Holmes Clinic with the help of four quirky newbie docs.

The title character, as one might deduce, is Dr. John Watson, described in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “A Study in Scarlet” as “brown as a nut”—in this case, actor Morris Chestnut.

Watson has mostly been defined by his relationship to Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective ... Some of these directly concern Watson, whom Chestnut plays as a man of tremendous intelligence ...

Morris Chestnut: Watson genuinely wants to see ... Were you a fan of the Sherlock Holmes books and novels by Arthur Conan Doyle? I was. Craig Sweeny, the showrunner and creator [who also created ...

Morris Chestnut’s Watson is confident ... overlaid with a smattering of ever-popular Sherlock Holmes references. However, Holmes diehards should probably rein in their expectations.

Two TV favorites get blended when “Watson” debuts on CBS on Sunday, Jan. 26: A medical drama and Sherlock Holmes. Morris Chestnut stars in the modern-day procedural, which follows Dr. Watson ...

Watson, on the other hand, straight-up takes place in a world where Chestnut’s Dr. John Watson went on a bunch of adventures with renowned detective Sherlock Holmes in London. He then returned ...