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Hamza Haq graduated from a hired consultant to the star of “Transplant,” a new medical drama premiering Sept. 1 on NBC. In the series, which debuted on Canada’s CTV earlier this year, Haq plays Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor and refugee who, through a series of events, finds himself part of the medical team at …

Hulu is developing “Rodham,” a provocative take on one of the most famous female American politicians of the past two decades, Hillary Rodham Clinton. The drama series, based on the book by Curtis Sittenfeld, comes from “The Affair’ co-creator Sarah Treem, Fox 21 Television Studios and studio-based the Littlefield Company. “Rodham” imagines an alternative history …

Even “Grey’s Anatomy” can’t escape the coronavirus. Season 17 of the medical drama will feature the COVID-19 pandemic as a plot point, says executive producer Krista Vernoff. The show’s writers are even meeting with real-life doctors who have been on the front lines of combating the virus in order to have accuracy. “There’s no way …

Daniel Bruhl had some help in preparing for his return as psychiatrist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler in Season 2 of “The Alienist.” “Being married to a real ‘alienist’ made my whole relationship even better,” says Bruhl, 42, using the term for psychiatrists in the late 19th century. “I learned so much from my wife’s [Felicitas Rombold] …

Philip Ettinger’s dual role in “I Know This Much Is True” hit very close to home. Ettinger, 34, plays teen/college-age identical twins Dominick and Thomas Birdsey in the acclaimed HBO drama starring Mark Ruffalo (as the older brothers). As the series progresses, Thomas’ paranoid schizophrenia manifests itself when the brothers get to college; Dominick, who …

Marcia Gay Harden had some interpretive freedom regarding Mathilde, the strong-willed innkeeper she plays in “Barkskins,” Nat Geo’s new historical drama set in 1690s New France. The Monday-night series, co-starring David Thewlis (“Big Mouth,” “Fargo”), is based on Annie Proulx’s 2016 novel and is set in Wobik, a small settlement in what’s now the Canadian …