A week after he was released from the hospital for Covid-19, The Good Doctor and TheWest Wing actor Richard Schiff used his personal experience as a warning.
“You don’t want this,” Schiff said, speaking to fellow The West Wing actor, Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.
On November 3, Schiff…
The story is part of Deadline’s Reopening Hollywood series.
After months of brainstorming and negotiations, the Hollywood studios and unions adopted rigorous safety protocols to get TV production going again. And, with fits and starts, it has been going, churning out fresh content with original episodes hitting the…
2nd UPDATE, Thursday, 3:15 PM: A day after he was taken off oxygen, The Good Doctor star Richard Schiff has been discharged from the hospital where he underwent treatment for COVID-19.
“I'm aware of how lucky I am. So many still struggling,” Schiff wrote on Twitter, thanking the nurses and doctors who cared for him at…
Richard Schiff, star of ABC’s The Good Doctor, and his wife, actress Sheila Kelley, who is recurring on the ABC medical drama, have tested positive for COVID-19, the two revealed on social media Tuesday.
Schiff said that his positive result came a week ago, on November 3.
“We're quarantined in our home in Vancouver…
Richard Schiff has said that stars of The West Wing are discussing a reunion in support of Black Lives Matter following the death of George Floyd.
The actor, who played Toby Ziegler in the iconic NBC White House drama, tweeted on Tuesday that work is underway on a “cast reunion and reading,” adding that the get…
Good news for fans of The West Wing— a reboot might be on the horizon. Actor Richard Schiff recently revealed that he has talked to show creator Aaron Sorkin about bringing the popular drama back to television.
“Aaron has said he wanted it to happen,” Schiff said on his appearance on the Popcorn Talk Network’s I Coul…
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Monday night’s episode of The Good Doctor.
The intense fall finale of The Good Doctor starts with a surprise love affair and then gets dark with a viral outbreak which leads to lots of lives on the line. It was a very intense episode to end the year.
Early in the…
Richard Schiff doesn’t watch medical shows. Which makes his decision to take The Good Doctor—one of the year’s most robust hits, soon approaching its second season shoot—rather surprising. But creator David Shore jonesed for Schiff to author Dr. Aaron Glassman, the hospital administrator and mentor to the surgeon with…
Alfre Woodard has signed on to topline prison dramaClemency, opposite Aldis Hodge and Richard Schiff. The pic hails from writer/director Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) and centers on a prison warden (Woodard) who confronts her own psychological demons as she develops an emotional connection to the death row inmate…
As Daniel Dae Kim departs his role on Hawaii Five-0, he embraces his producing career as EP of ABC's new offering, The Good Doctor. The show centers on Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, a pediatric surgeon diagnosed with autism. Having seen the show in its original 2013 incarnation in Korea, Kim felt it would work…
