The doctor is in, Peyton Elizabeth Lee, best known for her role as Andi Mack in Disney Channel’s series Andi Mack has landed the title role in Disney+’s highly-anticipated female-led reboot of Doogie Howser.
The reimagined series will be titled Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., Lee will portray Doogie Kameāloha, M.D., 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.