In CBS' new medical mystery drama, Morris Chestnut leads a team of capable doctors who don't need to be stuck in Sherlock Holmes' mythology.

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Probably. We think. The new CBS series Watson kicks off in Switzerland, where we find a determined Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) chasing after Holmes, who's busy fighting his arch nemesis,

Morris Chestnut stars as the famed detective's sidekick, who's grieving the apparent death of his mentor while running a Pittsburgh clinic specializing in rare disorders.

Sergei Bachlakov/CBS Morris Chestnut is playing the newest iteration of John Watson in CBS' Watson, and says fans can expect to see more than a few low-key references to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Sherlock Holmes book series.