Asshole doctors, serial killers, and new George R.R. Martin—all in today's trailer happy hour
Upfront presentations have taken over the news today, including dominating today’s Trailer Happy Hour. Fox and NBCUniversal trotted out their finest long-running procedurals and offbeat new-ish comedies (hi there, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) for advertisers, so brace yourselves for the latest iterations of renegade physicians and planes, as well as moms struggling to have it all.
Elsewhere in NBCUniversal land, Syfy debuted teasers of varying length for Deadly Class and Nightflyers—the former is the latest comic-book adaptation from the Russo brothers, while the latter is a new series from George R.R. Martin, based on his novella of the same name. So read on to find out where Wong ran off to in Avengers: Infinity War.
Deadly Class will be in session next year, as Anthony and Joe Russo bring Rick Remender and Wesley Craig’s graphic novel to the small screen. Benjamin Wadsworth leads the series as Marcus Lopez, newly recruited to King’s Dominion, a school for the deadly arts. He’s joined by Lana Condor, late of X-Men: Apocalypse, and Benedict Wong, who apparently moved on to sip tea and make dry observations after the Black Order wrecked part of New York City.
What the teaser for Nightflyers lacks in MCU and MCU-adjacent actors, it makes up for in George R.R. Martin pedigree. The Game Of Thrones creator is executive producing this adaptation of his 1980 novella of the same name. That book was reportedly inspired by someone telling Martin he couldn’t successfully blend horror and sci-fi together, and given that he’s described the show as “Psycho in space,” he’s still proving whoever that was wrong.