NBC’s new medical show Brilliant Minds, starring Zachary Quinto as an Oliver Sacks-style neurologist, premieres tonight.
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.
Official trailer:
The series filmed its pilot in 2023 and its series in 2024 under the working title Dr. Wolf in Toronto,, where Quinto made the local news after the Mediterranean-style Manita restaurant banned him for being “a terrible customer”. Manita claimed on their Instagram that Quinto “yelled at our staff like an entitled child after he didn’t reply to two texts to inform him his table was ready.”
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Brilliant Minds Season One:
Working title: Dr. Wolf.
Toronto filming dates: April 08 2024 – August 06 2024.
Writer/Producer: Michael Grassi.
Cast: Zachary Quinto, Teddy Sears, Tamberla Perry, Ashleigh LaThrop, Alexander MacNicoll, Aury Krebs, Spence Moore II.
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.
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.
