The actor stars as a version of the Arthur Conan Doyle character in a series set in the present day, following an American geneticist in the wake of Sherlock Holmes’s death.

Like “House,” it sees a genius doctor (in this case Morris Chestnut’s Dr. John Watson) diagnose medical mysteries with help from a team of photogenic sidekicks. And like “House,” it draws inspiration from Sherlock Holmes — this time more directly,