Dr. Shaun Murphy will see his last patients in 2024.
The forthcoming seventh season of The Good Doctor will be its final one, ABC announced Thursday. The medical drama, a co-production of Sony Pictures Television and ABC Signature, is slated to premiere Feb. 20.
The Good Doctor is the second long-running ABC drama slated to end this season. Station 19, the first responder-focused spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy, will also close out its run with a seventh season.
“The Good Doctor has been a once in a lifetime opportunity, but it’s time to say goodbye,” co-showrunners David Shore and Liz Friedman and fellow executive producer Erin Gunn said in a statement. “We are incredibly proud of the work we’ve done and the message we’ve been privileged to be a part of. We look forward to giving our fantastic fans, the truly extraordinary Freddie Highmore, the rest of our talented actors (and friends), and the best crew in the business the series ending that you all deserve. Thank you, Sony; thank you, ABC; thank you all.”
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Said Highmore, who’s also an EP of the series, “Playing Dr. Shaun Murphy has been an immense privilege and one of the most remarkable and rewarding experiences of my life. I will always be grateful to David, Liz, and Erin as well as the hugely talented — and lovely — cast, writers, and crew who made this show possible. Caring deeply is what got us here. Thank you to Sony and ABC, and to everyone who has watched along at home. With love from Vancouver … tequila, stat!”
The Good Doctor has been a consistently solid ratings performer for ABC over its six seasons to date. The show averaged 6.24 million viewers in Nielsen’s seven-day ratings for the 2022-23 season; those figures don’t include streaming, which often adds 30 to 40 percent more viewers to the linear total of a network series over seven days.
“Thanks to David Shore and Liz Friedman’s creative direction and anchored by Freddie Highmore’s performance, The Good Doctor has captivated audiences, who have deeply connected with Dr. Shaun Murphy and the staff at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital,” said Disney Television Group president Craig Erwich. “As we prepare to finish this beloved story, words cannot express our gratitude for the incredible cast, crew and our partners at Sony and ABC Signature for the lasting impact they’ve made.”
A potential spinoff of The Good Doctor, titled The Good Lawyer, aired as a back-door pilot last season, but ABC eventually passed on the show following the end of the writers and actors strikes last fall.
The Good Doctor is based on a Korean series. Along with Shore, Friedman, Gunn and Highmore, its executive producers are Daniel Dae Kim, Thomas L. Moran, David Hoselton, Peter Blake, Jessica Grasl, Garrett Lerner, Mike Listo, Shawn Williamson, David Kim and Sebastian Lee.
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