‘DR. DEATH’: STARZPLAY TO STREAM PEACOCK LIMITED SERIES IN EUROPE, LATIN AMERICA
First Published on Deadline.com
STARZPLAY HAS PICKED UP A BUNCH OF INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS FOR PEACOCK’S TRUE-CRIME LIMITED SERIES DR. DEATH, STARRING JOSHUA JACKSON, ALEC BALDWIN, AND CHRISTIAN SLATER.
The Lionsgate-backed international streamer will carry the UCP-produced series, based on the hit Wondery podcast of the same name, in the UK, Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and throughout Latin America, including Brazil and Mexico.
Written by Patrick Macmanus, who serves as showrunner, Dr. Death is based on the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Jackson), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed.