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
Share It is important we are in and out with as little fanfare as possible. So, mouths shut, ears open. Let s begin, he confidently tells the group.
Things quickly take a turn and a nurse, panicking tells Dr. Duntsch: sir, there s a lot of bleeding .
Malpractice: The streaming network dropped the chilling new trailer for its limited series drama, Dr. Death, starring Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater on Monday Morning, I m Dr. Christopher Duntsch, Jackson says to open the preview. Today we re going to be operating on Rose Keller. Patient presented with severe back pain diagnosed as a herniated disc.
Peacock has shared the first photos from the upcoming series
Dr. Death starring
The upcoming series is based on the hit podcast and tells the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (
Jackson), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed.
Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (
Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (
Christian Slater), as well as Dallas prosecutor Michelle Shughart (