2 l January
2 - 8, 2022
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
Jason Isaacs and Sophia
Bush star in “Good Sam,”
premiering Wednesday
on CBS.
Sophia Bush is ‘Good Sam’
in new CBS medical drama
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For Sophia Bush, “Good Sam” is
a good reason to get back into series
television.
The “One Tree Hill” and
“Chicago P.D.” alum is both
the title star and an executive
producer of the CBS medical
drama premiering Wednesday,
Jan. 5. She plays heart surgeon
Sam Griffith, who succeeds her
no-nonsense father (Jason Isaacs)
as their hospital’s chief of surgery
after a shooting incident leaves him
comatose. When he revives several
months later and wants his job
back, the relatives have intensified
conflicts that her mother and his
ex-wife (Wendy Crewson) – the
site’s chief medical officer – tries to
mediate.
“Over the last couple of years, it’s
been really interesting to work more
on developing pilots and other
content,” Bush reflects, “and also,
to be honest, to give myself the first
break in my adult life from network
TV. Really, it was when I had my
first meeting with (‘Good Sam’
creator) Katie Wech about a couple
of scripts that she put the bug in
my ear about this show ... and as
soon as I read the pilot, I knew this
was it for me.”
Bush maintains she had no
qualms about tackling a medical
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are, many others: “I realized that
the world of a hospital allows us to
explore family – whether it’s our
parents, our partners, our children,
our siblings – and it’s also about
our health. It’s a literal container
of life-or death experiences, and
we show up and we want to help. I
think that’s why so many of us are
drawn to the medical genre.
“One of the things that makes
this show so different to me,” adds
Bush, “is that the heart of it is
this generational seesaw between
a father and a daughter. There are
these Shakespearean moments, yet
there’s such humor, and I love being
able to laugh with a show that
can also make me cry. And both
(co-stars) Wendy and Jason are so
prolific and smart; their chemistry
is off the charts.”
The new year is starting for
Bush after a very eventful 2021:
Not only did she begin production
on “Good Sam,” she got engaged
(to entrepreneur Grant Hughes),
and she found podcast success by
reuniting with “One Tree Hill”
colleagues Hilarie Burton Morgan
and Bethany Joy Lenz on “Drama
Queens.” However, she says “Good
Sam” occupies a special space for
her now.
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