Apple TV+ Joins ZDF On Medical Drama ‘KRANK Berlin’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+ has boarded the fast-paced German medical drama KRANK Berlin. Apple has joined ZDFneo on the eight-part series, which is from Violet Pictures and Real Film Berlin and co-created by former British emergency room physician turned screenwriter Samuel Jefferson and Brimstone and Glory maker Viktor Jakovleski.
Apple will take global rights, with pubcaster ZDF showing it in Germany. The show stars Haley Louise Jones, who recently appeared in Netflix Germany breakout series Dear Child.
She plays Dr. Parker, a young medic managing a a chaotic emergency room in the toughest and most overcrowded hospital in Berlin while seeking a fresh start after her private life implodes in Munich.
Trying to implement necessary reforms, she meets resistance from the underpaid, poorly equipped and chronically fatigued hospital staff who only survive with an indispensable dose of black humor.
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