Peyton Elizabeth Lee to Star in "Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.," the Disney+ "Doogie Howser" Reboot

Peyton Elizabeth Lee has been cast in the lead role in the Disney+ Doogie Howser reboot, Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.

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What’s Happening:

Peyton Elizabeth Lee, star of Disney Channel’s Andi Mack and the Disney+ action fantasy film The Secret Society of Second-Born Royals, has landed the lead role in a Disney+ series.
Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. is a reboot of Doogie Howser, M.D., the show that became a star-launching vehicle for Neil Patrick Harris.
The series is set in Hawaii and Lee will play Lahela Kameāloha, a 16-year-old teenage doctor who goes by the nickname “Doogie.”
The series order from Disney+ includes 10 half-hour episodes, which is being produced by 20th Television.
The series is expected to start streaming in 2021.

Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. Description:

“Set in modern-day Hawaii, the 10-episode comedy follows Lahela “Doogie” Kameāloha, a mixed race 16-year-old girl, juggling a budding medical career and life as a teenager. Guiding Lahela (and also complicating things) is her family, including her spit-fire Irish mother who’s also her supervisor at the hospital, and her Hawaiian “Local Boy” father struggling to accept that his daughter is no longer his little girl.”