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Longing, subconsciously, for an era in which blue skies shone over all, and characters were, it not exactly embraced, than at the very least welcome, NBC revealed today that it was poking around at maybe making a Royal Pains revival, if nobody would mind. Per Deadline, original series star Mark Feuerstein is attached to both star in and executive produce the series, reprising his role as concierge doctor Hank Lawson.
The original Royal Pains ran for—no shit, really?—eight entire seasons on USA, spanning 2009 to 2016. (As the final show formally part of the network’s fabled “blue skies” era of branding, the show’s death, and the near-simultaneous launch of Mr. Robot, marked the end of that deliberately breezy chapter of its existence.) The series centered on Feuerstein as Hank, a former E.R. doctor who gets fired through no fault of his own, and instead ends up working as an on-demand doctor for extremely rich people in the Hamptons. Paolo Costanza, Reshma Shetty, Jill Flint, Brooke D’Orsay, Ben Shenkman, and Campbell Scott all starred in the series alongside Feuerstein, although none of them are apparently attached for the revival. Original series co-creator Andrew Lenchewski is working with writer Michael Rauch to produce and write the new show.
This is, of course, all Suits‘ fault, we assume. (See also that White Collar reboot that’s reportedly been kicking around Hollywood for a few months.) NBC recently revived that streaming catnip series as Suits: LA, and apparently that’s given it a serious hankering to bring back some other USA procedurals, now for the network market. Feuerstein, certainly, seems to have been free: Although a TV mainstay since the late ’90s, he’s mostly been working out in the streaming and deep cable fringes lately, having had a starring role in Netflix’s The Baby-Sitters Club and a recurring part in some of Starz’s Power shows.
