September 29 - October 5, 2024
The NBC drama series “Found” returns for its second season Thursday, Oct. 3, with a major change in the premise. Shanola Hampton in “Found”
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BY JAY BOBBIN
Don Johnson OF DOCTOR ODYSSEY ON ABC/HULU Q: It’s interesting to see Don Johnson coming back to series TV in “Doctor Odyssey.” What was the last series he had? A: Bankable on the home screen ever since his trendsetting 1980s role as Detective James “Sonny” Crockett in NBC’s “Miami Vice,” Don Johnson has had several shows since … the most recent one before his new ABC and Hulu program, “Doctor Odyssey,” been in the NBC sitcom “Kenan,” where he played a recurring role as Rick, the former father-in-law of the show’s titular star (Kenan Thompson). To go back to his earlier shows, Johnson had the lead in a syndicated 1979 miniseries version of the John Jakes historical novel “The Rebels,” then he co-starred in NBC’s 1980 series adaptation of “From Here to Eternity” based on the James Jones book that also inspired an Oscar-winning 1953 movie. After that, Johnson returned to NBC in “Miami Vice,” which changed the course of his career with the enormous success it had over its 1984-89 tenure. In the immediate aftermath of that trendy police drama, Johnson focused on feature-film work, but he was back on television in the title role of “Nash Bridges” on CBS from 1996 to 2001, where he played the title part of a San Francisco police detective (and he reprised the role in a 2021 movie for USA Network). In The WB’s “Just Legal” – the last show that network aired before it morphed into The CW – Johnson portrayed a veteran, struggling lawyer. He returned in 2010 and 2012 in the middle two of the four seasons of HBO’s sports comedy “Eastbound & Down.”