Sophia Bush Joins GOOD SAM on CBS

Deadline reports that actress Sophia Bush has joined the cast of "Good Sam," a new medical drama on CBS. She will play the titular role.

Good Sam centers on Sam (Bush), a talented yet stifled heart surgeon who embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma. When he awakens and wants to resume surgery, however, it falls to her to supervise this overbearing blowhard who never acknowledged her talents - and also happens to be her father.

Bush's Sam works in the same hospital as her domineering father, Griff, who is impossible to please and never acknowledged her talents. Second in command to him and always in his shadow, Sam rises to the occasion when he falls into a coma and she takes charge of the department as chief of surgery. Sam comes into her own professionally and personally, however, when her world is upturned again after Griff awakens and wants to practice again, even if it means being supervised by his daughter.

Katie Wech wrote the pilot.

Bush is best known for her work on "One Tree Hill," and in "John Tucker Must Die."

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