While the seventh season of “Good Doctor” will air on ABC in a few months, one of the emblematic actors of the medical series, who has been with it since its release, will not be back for the new series of episodes.
Now it’s official: Hill Harper, Dr. Marcus Andrews will be leaving Good Doctor before Season 7. Last March, the actor, who has been present since the start of the medical series, announced that he wanted to run for senator for the state of Michigan.
News that worried fans as this political race would inevitably impact his future on Good Doctor. That’s why the ax fell yesterday. In fact, our colleagues at TVLine have exclusively revealed that the actor will not be returning to the Freddie Highmore-hosted series.
“Hill Harper believes there is a crisis in American democracy – too often government works only for the rich and powerful while the rest struggle to make their voices heard,” the spokesman said. Hill Harper campaign spokesman told TVLine.
“Hill is focusing his full-time efforts on remedying this situation and is running for the U.S. Senate as an active party member to give working people a better voice in Congress.” At this time, neither ABC nor Sony Picture have responded to this announcement.
Hill Harper has been with Good Doctor since its release in 2017 and starred alongside Freddie Highmore and Richard Schiff, who each played Dr. Shaun Murphy and Dr. Playing Aaron Glassman, one of the last three regular actors to walk the halls of St. Bonaventure Hospital.
In the sixth season finale, Dr. Andrews returned, thereby preparing the departure of his interpreter from the medical series.
He’s not the only actor saying goodbye before the seventh season premieres February 20 on ABC. Brandon Larracuente, who entered the fiction at the beginning of the sixth season in the role of assistant doctor Danny Perez, will also not be back for the new series of episodes.
Note that if Good Doctor returns for a seventh season, the spin-off project Good Lawyer has been canceled. The legal series, introduced by Felicity Huffman in a backdoor pilot in Season 6, failed to convince the network, which chose not to convert the test.