Back in April, we reported that Disney was developing a female-led reboot of classic improbable medical drama Doogie Howser, M.D. with Fresh Off The Boat and How I Met Your Mother writer/producer Kourtney Kang. The plan for the new show, tentatively titled Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., would be to do the same basic thing but with a half-white, half-Asian girl in Hawaii being the one who becomes a practicing doctor at 16-years-old.
Now, as reported by Deadline, Disney+ has given the reboot a straight-to-series, 10-episode order and is planning to go into production later this year for a 2021 premiere. We also have some more plot specifics to go along with that news, with Deadline adding that the new Doogie is Lahela Kameāloha, with Doogie apparently being her nickname for some reason, whose life as a teenage genius is complicated by her “spit-fire Irish mother” who is also her supervisor at the hospital and her “Hawaiian ‘Local Boy’ father” who has a hard time accepting that young Doogie “is no longer his little girl.” (In the original series, Boy-Doogie’s dad was a doctor with a private practice.)
As was the case in April, there’s no word on if original Doogie actor Neil Patrick Harris will appear, but it would be fun if there was some indication that this takes place in the same universe as the old show. Maybe Lahela gets the nickname “Doogie” because she reminds people of the famous medical prodigy? Or, better yet, it exists in a universe where the old Doogie Howser TV show exists! Then Harris can show up as himself and make meta-jokes about how the woman who created this reboot also worked on How I Met Your Mother, which he was also on.
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In related news, Animal Planet has orders 10 episodes of puppy-led Doggy Howser, M.D.
Awwww….
Hey! In America, treatment by a dog doctor is the best medical care a lot of people can get.
I hope it goes better than their Hound, M.D. There’s nothing worse than a malcontent Bassett Hound constantly baying angrily at everyone.
IT’S REVER RUPUS!
Especially one who has a heavy snausage addiction.
More like Doggy Howser, Q.T.
With all these remaking 90s shows, I can’t believe a Parker Lewis Can’t Lose remake hasn’t come about. It was a pretty entertaining show, sort of similar to Saved by the Bell. He would even break the 4th wall.
I remember that show coming out around the same time as the Ferris Bueller TV show. They were similar to each other though I remember Parker Lewis being more fantastical (and the more fun, entertaining show). And I think it lasted way longer.
Parker Lewis was 100% conceived as a Ferris Bueller knockoff (just look at the titles), although it quickly proved to be great.
It did a lot better too. Pretty sure Parker Lewis was dunking on Ferris Bueller in-show before it had even got through its first season.
I mean…the Ferris Bueller series lasted half a season. Of course Parker lasted longer. They got three seasons.
Herman’s Head is back mother fuckers!
But is he back in POG form?
Wait, I thought Hauser was Quaid…/total_recall
My guess is that she’s a real Doogie Howser and that’s how she got the nickname.
Disney already did that it was called ‘Dr McStuffins’
Doc McStuffins was fixing her dolls and stuffed animals, not actually going to medical school.
Regardless of what you think of the show, the title theme absolutely rules.
They really wouldn’t even need to update it, would that? The 80s synthesizer sound would work pretty well now. Which means, of course, they’d ruin it.
Calling it now- Ukuleles.
We have a winner!
Haha awesome!
Surprised they went with Lahela Kameāloha when Emma Stone was right there.
Whatever happens, we must never, ever let this joke die. It’s one of those one’s that, at least for me, gets funnier with repetition.
*Spike Lee angrily…fuck it. I give up.
You, Spike Lee, and everyone else. The only one that never gives up is Emma Stone campaign for Aloha 2.
Something something Dawes.
I sensed that was coming. OF COCKI’m really no good at this.
I got a (non-)Community notification for this?!?
Was gonna say, as long as she’s still named “Doogie”, by all means, go for it.
Dougess Howser, M.D.
I want Droogie Howser, M.D. Viddy well…
Prescribing a little bit of the ultra-violence.
I’m going to prescribe you serum 114…You may experience periodic nausea.
Doogie is a name so dumb it transcends race. No matter what your cultural background, it remains a terrible name.
I somehow read the headline too fast and saw “female-led House M.D. reboot” and was simultaneously perplexed but also down for it.
They should do a House-style show with Neil Patrick Harris as a grown-up, burned out doctor who’s been doing this shit for 30 years so he just berates everyone and everyone keeps questioning him even though he’s always right. Then he hits his anonymous Twitter account at the end of every ep to bitch about it……and cyberstalk Wanda.
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every
culture, is the story of Doogie Howser.
If her surname is “Kamealoha”, how is she half white and half Asian? Is her “Hawaiian ‘local boy’” father, whose surname is “Kamealoha” actually her step-father who adopted her and gave her his name? If not she must have some indigenous Hawaiian blood in there somewhere.
This is me, rolling my eyes into the back of my head.