# Doc (2025 TV series)

Doc is an American medical drama television series developed by Barbie Kligman and premiered on January 7, 2025, on Fox. The series is based on the Italian television series Doc – Nelle tue mani, which has been broadcast on Rai 1 since 2020.
In February 2025, Fox renewed the series for a second season.

## Premise

Dr. Amy Larsen, the chief of internal medicine at Minneapolis's fictional Westside Hospital, suffers a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that causes her to lose her memory of the last eight years. She struggles to resume her medical career and build a new life after the events she can't remember, which include a divorce from her husband and a tragedy that made her push others away.

## Cast
### Main

* Molly Parker as Dr. Amy Larsen, attending physician in Internal Medicine
* Omar Metwally as Dr. Michael Hamda, Chief Medical Officer
* Jon Ecker as Dr. Jake Heller, Chief Resident
* Amirah Vann as Dr. Gina Walker, Neuropsychiatrist
* Anya Banerjee as Dr. Sonya Maitra, Third Year Resident

### Recurring

* Scott Wolf as Dr. Richard Miller, Acting Chief of Internal Medicine
* Patrick Walker as Dr. Theodore "TJ" Coleman, First Year Resident

## Episodes

| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
| 1 | "If at First You Don't Succeed..." | Rebecca Thomas | Barbie Kligman | January 7, 2025 (2025-1-7) | 2.22 |
| Chief of Internal Medicine, Dr. Amy Miller, is a great doctor but doesn’t have the best bedside manner. She is on thin ice with the hospital board due to her behavior. Amy asks Dr. Richard Miller about a patient of his, Bill Dixon, who died, and wants to know if he accidentally gave him Metoprolol which can't be mixed with the medication was given. He denies giving him Metoprolol and says that he aspirated on his lunch and could not be saved. Amy tells him that she ordered an autopsy, and if he lied, he is done. After treating a pregnant patient and her co-workers rudely, her ex-husband, Dr. Michael Hamda, who is the Chief Medical Officer, tells her to go home for the night. On the way home, she gets into a car accident, suffers from a traumatic brain injury, and loses the memory of the past eight years of her life. When she wakes up from surgery, she still thinks she is married and doesn't know that her youngest child died seven years prior. While being a patient herself, she tells her fellow doctors how to treat the pregnant patient. Prior to the accident, it is revealed that she has been secretly seeing Chief Resident Dr. Jake Heller for five months. Richard replaces Amy as Chief. ||||||
| 2 | "...Try Try Again" | Rebecca Thomas | Barbie Kligman | January 14, 2025 (2025-1-14) | 2.52 |
| 3 | "Day One" | Russell Lee Fine | Teleplay by : Hank Steinberg Story by : Barbie Kligman | January 21, 2025 (2025-1-21) | 2.33 |
| 4 | "One Small Step" | Debs Paterson | Judith McCreary | January 28, 2025 (2025-1-28) | 2.08 |
| 5 | "He Ain't Heavy" | Marisol Adler | Hank Steinberg & Mark Bianculli | February 4, 2025 (2025-2-4) | 2.14 |
| 6 | "Once More, with Feeling" | Amanda Row | Katie Varney | February 11, 2025 (2025-2-11) | 2.28 |
| 7 | "Secrets and Lies" | Russell Lee Fine | Judith McCreary | February 18, 2025 (2025-2-18) | 2.45 |
| 8 | "Man Plans" | Jono Oliver | Mark Bianculli | February 25, 2025 (2025-2-25) | 2.48 |
| 9 | "What Goes Up..." | Nicole Rubio | Katie Varney | March 11, 2025 (2025-3-11) | 2.46 |
| 10 | "...Must Come Down" | Michael Goi | Barbie Kligman | March 18, 2025 (2025-3-18) | TBD |
| A man commits suicide by stopping his car on train tracks. There are multiple casualties and injuries. The hospital is flooded with patients. Gina figures out that the man who caused the accident is a patient of hers. Michael's wife, Nora sees texts from Amy on Michael's iPad where it says, "we need to talk about last night." She confronts Michael in his office, and he tells her the truth. On her way out she runs into Amy and calls her out on it. Sonya overhears this. Amy visits Bill Dixon's widow to tell her that she was responsible for his death. She tells her that she has never seen her before and that Bill never took Metoprolol. Amy confronts the nurse who was there when Bill died and figures out that Richard gaslit her and used her amnesia to make her think that she killed Bill instead of him. She turns him in to Michael and the head of the board, Max. Richard is fired and has his license suspended. Sonya tells Jake about Amy and Michael being together, but he doesn't believe her. Jake goes back to the hospital and sees them kissing in his office. ||||||

## Production
### Development

On February 16, 2023, Fox announced that it was developing an adaptation of Doc – Nelle tue mani, a series created by Francesco Arlanch and Viola Rispoli for Italian channel Rai 1. On April 3, 2023, it was announced that the adaptation had been picked up for a full series. Doc was moved to the 2024–25 season due to production delays related to the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. The series is created by Barbie Kligman, who is also expected to executive produce alongside Hank Steinberg and Erwin Stoff. Production companies involved are 3 Arts Entertainment, Fox Entertainment, and Sony Pictures Television. On February 26, 2025, Fox renewed the series for a 22-episode second season. It is the first drama on Fox to receive a 22 episode season order since The Resident during the 2021–22 season.

### Casting

On December 19, 2023, Molly Parker was cast as Dr. Amy Elias in the lead role. On March 4, 2024, Omar Metwally, Amirah Vann, Jon-Michael Ecker and Anya Banerjee were announced as series regulars, and Scott Wolf and Patrick Walker were set to recur in the series.

### Filming

Production started in March 2024 in Toronto, Canada.

## Broadcast

Doc premiered on Fox on January 7, 2025. In Canada, the series airs on Global and is available to stream on StackTV. In Southeast Asia, the series airs on AXN Asia.

## Reception
### Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 44% approval rating with an average rating of 4.1/10, based on 9 critic reviews. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 58 out of 100 based on 5 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.

### Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of Doc :
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
| 1 | "If at First You Don't Succeed..." | January 7, 2025 | 0.2/2 | 2.22 | 0.1 | 1.99 | 0.3 | 4.16 |
| 2 | "Try Try Again" | January 14, 2025 | 0.3/3 | 2.52 | 0.2 | 2.38 | 0.4 | 4.90 |
| 3 | "Day One" | January 21, 2025 | 0.2/3 | 2.33 | 0.1 | 2.36 | 0.4 | 4.69 |
| 4 | "One Small Step" | January 28, 2025 | 0.2/3 | 2.08 | 0.2 | 2.41 | 0.4 | 4.57 |
| 5 | "He Ain't Heavy" | February 4, 2025 | 0.2/3 | 2.14 | 0.2 | 2.28 | 0.4 | 4.42 |
| 6 | "Once More, with Feeling" | February 11, 2025 | 0.3/3 | 2.28 | 0.1 | 2.17 | 0.4 | 4.44 |
| 7 | "Secrets and Lies" | February 18, 2025 | 0.3/4 | 2.45 | 0.2 | 2.31 | 0.5 | 4.76 |
| 8 | "Man Plans" | February 25, 2025 | 0.3/4 | 2.48 | 0.2 | 2.11 | 0.4 | 4.59 |
| 9 | "What Goes Up..." | March 11, 2025 | 0.2/3 | 2.46 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |