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Damon Wayans Jr. To Lead NBC Drama Pilot 'Puzzled'

Based on Danielle Trussoni’s The Puzzle Master, the Universal Television pilot follows a brain-injury survivor whose rare skills anchor a police procedural premise.

Overview

  • Wayans Jr. will star as Mike Brink, a former college athlete transformed by a traumatic brain injury that grants extraordinary pattern-recognition abilities.
  • The character develops acquired savant syndrome, enabling exceptional puzzle-solving and advanced math that inform his crime-solving work with local police.
  • Brink makes his living by betting on sports, leveraging the same skills that drive the show’s investigative cases.
  • Joey Falco serves as writer and executive producer, with Jordan Cerf executive producing and Danielle Trussoni producing for Universal Television.
  • NBC ordered the pilot in January, and Wayans Jr. arrives following recent turns in the Netflix films Players and Kinda Pregnant and a producing deal at CBS Studios under Two Shakes Entertainment.