Dr. Death: Jackson, Slater and Baldwin headline trailer for Peacock series

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

You might want to take another look at your living will because Peacock has prepped the official trailer for its original limited series Dr. Death.

Based on Wondery’s hit podcast, Dr. Death is inspired by the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Joshua 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 were 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 (AnnaSophia Robb), set out to stop him. Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of Dr. Duntsch and the failures of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us.

The series stars Joshua Jackson, who's replacing Jamie Dornan, Grace Gummer, and AnnaSophia Robb, with Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater.

Dr. Death boasts an all-female directing team. Directors include Maggie Kiley (Riverdale, Powerpuff), who will also executive produce the first two episodes, Jennifer Morrison (Peacock’s One of Us Is Lying, Euphoria) and So Yong Kim (Treeless Mountain, Lovesong).

Peacock's chilling adaptation of Duntsch's story is executive produced by Patrick Macmanus through his Littleton Road Productions studio, and under his overall deal with UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group. Macmanus also serves as showrunner. Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, and Taylor Latham also executive produce via Escape Artists, as well as Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy of Wondery.