NBC Universal’s streaming service Peacock just dropped the first trailer for
Dr. Death, which stars Joshua Jackson in a series inspired by a real-life former Texas surgeon who left 33 patients maimed or dead. In the trailer, Jackson plays Dr. Christopher Duntsch, who does routine spinal surgeries and is based on the doctor in the real-world events told in the first season of the Laura Beil’s Wondery podcast of the same name.
The shiny exterior of Duntsch’s position as a surgeon starts to crack when others start noticing discrepancies with his surgeries. He seems to be making mistakes in a system ill-equipped to stop him until two doctors, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), grow suspicious.
The latest Wondery podcast to transition to the small screen is
Dr. Death, based on the first season of journalist Laura Beil’s series on deadly doctors and the systems that enable them. Like
Dirty John on sister network Bravo, it looks like Peacock’s
Dr. Death kicks the melodrama up a few or 20 notches, as evidenced by this very
dramatic trailer:
To be fair, Joshua Jackson seems to be giving the sort of on-the-nose performance you’d expect from a series called pause for impact
DR. DEATH. Co-starring Alec Baldwin, Kelsey Grammer (yeah it’s that kind of party), Christian Slater (whose previous role in
The Hollywood Reporter, which offers ad-free listening, early access to episodes, and exclusive content. These same perks will become available on Apple Podcast Subscriptions for the same price: $5 per month or $35 per year.
Apple Podcast Subscriptions is set to bow later this month. And Wondery is launching an exclusive podcast in tandem with its arrival dubbed
The Vaping Fix, chronicling the rise of vaping and hosted by
Dr. Death‘s
Laura Beil.
“We’re excited to join with Apple on the next chapter of podcasting and are encouraged by the opportunities this subscription offering opens up for the podcast industry as a whole,” Wondery CEO
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