There’s only one show like #TheGoodDoctor. Experience Television’s #1 new drama with #GoldenGlobes nominee #FreddieHighmore returning TOMORROW at 10|9c on ABC. pic.twitter.com/GALVH6JPul
— The Good Doctor (@GoodDoctorABC) January 7, 2018
Why did people fall so hard for Freddie Highmore’s surgical resident Dr. Shaun Murphy, an autistic young man with savant syndrome? Maybe because Shaun gets in trouble for not hiding what he’s thinking, like a toddler who’s unfailingly honest. But he isn’t mean and this isn’t a cynical show.
The Good Doctor is television’s newest hit because of Freddie Highmore’s lead performance, nominated at tonight’s Golden Globes.
Cheering on our very own #FreddieHighmore with fingers crossed and a full heart. #TheGoodDoctor (and #BatesMotel!) fans, please join me in wishing him good luck at the #goldenglobes tonight!🙌🏼
— Daniel Dae Kim (@danieldaekim) January 7, 2018
Let’s hear it for the boy… @freddiehighmore for the WIN!#TeamFreddieHighmore#GoldenGlobes2018 pic.twitter.com/lJ5OQTx2bM
— Nicholas Gonzalez (@IamNickGonzalez) January 7, 2018
I captured Freddie Highmore morphing into Dr. Shaun Murphy at one of their regular locations — the Broadway campus of Vancouver Community College.
Freddie Highmore not in character. Look at the smile and eye contact.
Dr. Shaun Murphy.
ABC scored an early and surprise hit with The Good Doctor. How big a hit? When delayed viewing is added in, David Shore and Daniel Kim’s hospital series drew a bigger audience last Fall than NBC’s This is Us and CBS’s NCIS, averaging almost 17 million viewers an episode.
But you’d never know how big a show The Good Doctor is if you stopped by one of its on-location shoots in metro Vancouver. Surrey City Hall plays the exterior for San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital and Vancouver Community College on Broadway regularly subs in for interior hospital sequences.
Here’s Dr. Shaun Murphy catching up to one of his fellow surgical rookies last Fall. Freddie Highmore practiced this over and over before the cameras were rolling.
Dr. Claire Browne (Antonia Thomas), Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore) and Dr. Jared Kalu (Chuku Modu)
Between takes.
The Good Doctor returns Monday, January 8th, at 10 p.m. on ABC in the U.S. and CTV in Canada.
