{"id":2212866,"date":"2025-12-26T14:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2212866"},"modified":"2025-12-26T14:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:40:35","slug":"exclusive-inside-annie-potts-new-josh-charles-comedy-best-medicine-and-the-co-star-that-nearly-bit-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/exclusive-inside-annie-potts-new-josh-charles-comedy-best-medicine-and-the-co-star-that-nearly-bit-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Inside Annie Potts&#8217; new Josh Charles comedy &#8216;Best Medicine&#8217; \u2014\u00a0and the co-star that nearly bit her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2FAnniePottsonhavinganactingpartnerthattriedtobitemeinBestMedicineandherfutureinGhostbusters2.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>She\u2019s ready to set sail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Annie Potts has done nearly everything in Hollywood, but her new Fox comedy \u201cBest Medicine\u201d put her in a new situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really different from the things that I played. And I always look for that,\u201d Potts, 73, told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She quipped, \u201cIt is interesting to have as your acting partner a lobster. [I\u2019ve worked with] and all different kinds of animals and people before, but none of them ever tried to bite me.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Annie Potts in \u201cBest Medicine.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">F.ROMAN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Josh Charles in \u201cBest Medicine.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">F.ROMAN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Based on the British comedy \u201cDoc Marten,\u201d the show has a special premiere Jan. 4 at 8 p.m., followed by its regular time slot premiere on Jan 6 at 8 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The comedy follows Dr. Martin Best (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/30\/entertainment\/josh-charles-wanted-to-stir-s-t-up-on-the-veil-with-elisabeth-moss\/\">Josh Charles, \u201cThe Good Wife\u201d<\/a>), a surgeon who is relocating from a career in Boston to become the general practitioner to the quirky fishing village of Port Wenn, Maine. <\/p>\n<p>The town is filled with colorful characters, such as local teacher Louisa (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/31\/entertainment\/meghan-markles-suits-co-star-abigail-spencer-teases-netflix-show\/\">Abigail Spencer<\/a>), cheerful sheriff Mark Mylow (Josh Segarra), and Potts as his Aunt Sarah, a lobster woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Potts has had a storied career in classic shows like \u201cDesigning Women\u201d and movies such as \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d but she said working with lobsters was new.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey found an actual lobster woman up the East Coast and they said, \u2018would you like to speak with her?\u2019 She was in her 90s and she had only stopped lobstering at 83. Jean was a ball of fire, she had a lot to say about lobstering and how much she loved it. I just loved her spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Tennessee born \u201cPretty in Pink\u201d actress added, \u201cMy father was a big hunting and fishing kind of guy. And I often accompanied him on those trips. I\u2019ve always been a big tomboy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Annie Potts in \u201cBest Medicine.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">F.ROMAN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Annie Potts in a promo photo for \u201cBest Medicine.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Among her past projects, Potts said that \u201cBest Medicine\u201d is more similar to her character on \u201cYoung Sheldon\u201d than on \u201cDesigning Women.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think \u2018Designing Women\u2019 is about as far from\u00a0Port Wenn, Maine, as you can get.\u201d But, her \u201cYoung Sheldon\u201d character was, \u201ca lot more like me. A fiery, sassy older woman,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Potts found a similarity between that role and \u201cBest Medicine\u201d because she had a relationship giving guidance to \u201ca young boy, who was the smartest kid in school and had some bullying [for that]\u201d on \u201cYoung Sheldon,\u201d which ran for seven seasons until 2024.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Annie Potts (left), Mesach Taylor, Dixie Carter, Jan Hooks in \u201cDesigning Women.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Annie Potts in \u201cGhostbusters\u201d in 1984.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Columbia Pictures\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Charles\u2019 character on \u201cBest Medicine\u201d is \u201can older boy, with some of the same issues, [who\u2019s also] looking outside his parents to have the support that he needed,\u201d she noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Potts said she never could have anticipated the longevity of the \u201cGhostbusters\u201d franchise. She\u2019s been in \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d \u201cGhostbusters II,\u201d the 2016 reboot, 2021\u2019s \u201cGhostbusters: Afterlife\u201d and 2024\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/03\/21\/entertainment\/ghostbusters-frozen-empire-review-who-ya-gonna-call-to-get-your-money-back\/\">\u201cGhostbusters: Frozen Empire.\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody thinks they\u2019re going to do a thing and it\u2019s going to last for twenty years. It\u2019s amazing,\u201d she told The Post. \u201cI\u2019ve loved every one of them. And it\u2019s so fun to get together every four to ten years, and do another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Whether there is more<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea. Generally if they continue to make money, they continue to make them. They\u2019ve got a nice in with the new young cast and Paul Rudd. The kids are great. So, I think [the franchise] will keep on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She\u2019s ready to set sail.\u00a0 Annie Potts has done nearly everything in Hollywood, but her new Fox comedy \u201cBest Medicine\u201d put her in a new situation.\u00a0 \u201cIt was really different from the things that I played. And I always look for that,\u201d Potts, 73, told The Post.\u00a0 She quipped, \u201cIt is interesting to have as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2212867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[398107,397045,21741,22074,360061,21913],"class_list":["post-2212866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-annie-potts","tag-comedies","tag-entertainment","tag-fox","tag-josh-charles","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Exclusive-Inside-Annie-Potts-new-Josh-Charles-comedy-Best.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2212868,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212866\/revisions\/2212868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2212867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}