Sitcom star and comic Dave Coulier is scrubbing in. He’ll star because the eponymous Doctor Dave on a brand new medical drama. Variety stories that Coulier is ready to star in and produce the brand new sequence.

In Doctor Dave, Coulier will star as a pediatrician at a struggling Detroit hospital who makes use of humor and compassion to look after his sufferers, and to assist out his eclectic and eccentric assortment of coworkers. The sequence was co-created by Coulier and producer Dan Merchant. Coulier immediately impressed the sequence, based on Merchant: “I first worked with Dave on our radio show comedy Live + Local for Great American Pure Flix, but it was at a time when he had just endured a very heavy personal loss. Dave was so candid about this loss and shared his pain in such a gentle way – and then turned it on when the cameras rolled and made me laugh so hard…just got me thinking about the kind of show I’d love to see Dave do next and that show is Doctor Dave.”

Who Is Dave Coulier?

A local of Detroit, Michigan, Coulier moved to Los Angeles at age 19 to turn into a stand-up comedian, and met and befriended fellow aspiring standup Bob Saget. A famous impressionist, he turned an achieved voice actor within the Eighties, voicing Animal on Muppet Babies and Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters. He bought his huge break alongside Saget in 1987, when the 2 (plus John Stamos) starred within the hit household sitcom Full House. As Joey Gladstone, unofficial uncle to Danny Tanner (Saget)’s three daughters, Coulier performed a humorist, incorporating a lot of his personal comedy act into the present. Coulier starred in all eight seasons of the ABC sequence till it concluded in 1995, and subsequntly appeared in China, IL, The Surreal Life, and Dollface. He reprised his position as Uncle Joey in Netflix’s five-season revival of the sequence, Fuller House. He at present hosts Full House Rewind, a rewatch podcast going episode by episode by Full House. He previously dated Canadian singer Alanis Morissette; there are conflicting stories as as to whether he’s the ex-lover “You Oughta Know” was written about.

Merchant’s different producing credit embrace the horror sequence Z Nation and Black Summer. He at present produces Going Home, a TV sequence a couple of crew of hospice nurses.

Doctor Dave, a brand new medical drama starring Dave Coulier, is now in growth. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.