
Today, Apple TV announced it has picked up “
Beat the Reaper,” a new dramedy starring BAFTA Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Will Poulter (
“Black Mirror,” “The Bear”), who will also serve as executive producer. “Beat the Reaper” will be showrun and executive produced by Sam Catlin (
“Sugar,” “Preacher,” “Breaking Bad”), with Apple Studios and New Regency serving as co-studios.
Based on the novel of the same name by
Josh Bazell,
“Beat the Reaper” will star Poulter as Dr. Peter Brown, an intern at Boston’s worst hospital who has a talent for medicine, works a shift from hell, and has a past he’d prefer to keep hidden. But when a patient recognizes him from his dangerous past, Brown has eight hours to elude the government, mob hitmen, quack surgeons, and a trail of dead gangers to beat the reaper somehow.
Hailing from Apple Studios and New Regency, “Beat the Reaper” will be executive-produced by Catlin under his overall deal with Apple TV. Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, and Natalie Lehmann will executive produce for New Regency.
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