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Doc Season 3 confirmed: cast changes, release date, time jump and more

Molly Parker will return as Dr. Amy Larsen, but two cast regulars from season 2 will not

Guides by Avery Kaplan, Contributing writer

Published on Fri May 29 2026

The finale of Doc Season 2 aired on April 14th, 2026 on Fox, and no sooner had the credits rolled than were audiences asking whether or not the show would be returning for a third season. Fortunately, we can confirm that Doc Season 3 is on its way! The third season has already been ordered by Fox, and will begin in fall 2026.

Doc is the story of Doctor Amy Larsen (Molly Parker), who was the Chief of Internal Medicine at the fictional Westside Hospital in Minneapolis... until she was involved in a car accident that causes her to forget the previous eight years of her life. Discovering that during that interval she had been subjected to a tragedy and also divorced, Larsen is left to rebuild her life and career. The show is based on the Italian series Doc – Nelle tue mani, which is itself based on the real-life story of Dr. Pierdante Piccioni.

The show's third season will see some changes from previous years. For one thing, cast members Felicity Huffman and Charlotte Fountain-Jardim will no longer be series regulars, which fans might have anticipated; for one thing, Huffman's character died in the second season finale episode, while Fountain-Jardim's character Katie is leaving to go to college, according to executive producer and co-showrunner Hank Steinberg. (She is expected to guest star, however.) Additionally, the show is adding Blair Underwood as trauma surgeon Dr. Ben Grant, a new character who has a history with Amy... that she doesn't remember. The third season is also expected to take place after a time jump that will move characters on emotionally from where audiences last saw them.

Doc Season 3 will air in the Tuesday 9pm ET/8 Central timeslot in the 2026/2027 broadcast year. While Fox has yet to officially announce the return date for the show, historical evidence suggests that audiences should expect Doc Season 3 to begin in the final week of September 2026, or the first week of October 2026.

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Avery Kaplan: Avery lives and writes in Southern California. She is the co-author of Double Challenge: Being LGBTQ and a Minority with her spouse, Rebecca Oliver Kaplan. Avery is Features Editor at Comics Beat, and you can also find her writing on StarTrek.com, The Gutter Review, Geek Girl Authority, and in the margins of the books in her personal library.