NBC renews medical drama Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto as an Oliver Sacks-style neurologist, for season 2 of filming in Toronto — with a full season order of 18 – 22 episodes.
Brilliant Minds follows a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, Dr. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto), and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier, the human mind, while also grappling with their own relationships and mental health.
Dr. Wolf suffers from his own neurological condition: face blindness.
Characters:
Zachary Quinto plays obsessive genius Dr. Wolf, head of neurology at Bronx General, who’s drawn to people society has deemed as “other” and helps them find hope and purpose.
Teddy Sears plays Dr. Josh Nichols, a neurosurgeon who left a private practice in San Francisco to work at Bronx General and relies on technology to treat his patients — the opposite of Wolf.
Tamberla Perry plays Dr. Carol Pierce, the head of psychology at Bronx General and Wolf’s longtime friend.
Brilliant Minds was the #5 most-viewed new drama this season, averaging 4.9 million viewers.
Brilliant Minds Season 2:
Working title: Dr. Wolf.
Toronto filming dates: Summer?
Writer/Producer: Michael Grassi.
Cast: Zachary Quinto, Teddy Sears, Tamberla Perry, Ashleigh LaThrop, Alexander MacNicoll, Aury Krebs, Spence Moore II.
Soundstages: Heritage Studio, Mississauga.
Producers: Berlanti Productions , 72nd Street Productions Warner Bros. TV.
Brilliant Minds is inspired by Oliver Sacks’s bestselling books The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars.
