Apple confirmed today that it will adapt Josh Bazell’s 2009 debut novel “ ” for Apple TV. Here are the details.

According to Apple, the new show will be a joint production between Apple Studios and New Regency, and it will be showrun by Sam Catlin ( , ), who will also serve as executive producer.

Here’s the company’s synopsis for Beat the Reaper:

(…) 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.

Poulter ( , ) will play Dr. Peter Brown, and so far is the only confirmed cast member.

Apple didn’t detail when production will start, nor when the series is expected to debut.

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