CBS ’s new medical drama Watson has already left viewers speechless with its casting reveal of a classic villain. The series, which aired its pilot episode immediately after the NFL AFC Championship between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills, is a daring spin-off of Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Probably. We think. The new CBS series Watson kicks off in Switzerland, where we find a determined Dr. John Watson (Morris Chestnut) chasing after Holmes, who's busy fighting his arch nemesis,

Set six months after Sherlock Holmes' death, the new CBS series stars Morris Chestnut. When does it come out and how can you watch?

Perrineau, a costar of Chestnut’s in the Best Man film series, has been delivering powerful performances for decades now, including his too-short Lost stint. He’d undoubtedly put his own stamp on the character.

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.