Overview
- Paramount+ announced Wednesday that Richard Madden will star and serve as an executive producer on Trauma as Jim Marchant, a former Royal Marines medic turned ER doctor.
- The series' official logline says terrorists seize a busy London hospital and take the prime minister hostage during surgery, forcing Marchant to fight floor by floor to save those inside.
- Geoff Bussetil created and wrote the series while Daniel Syrkin will direct and executive-produce, joining a team with prior thriller and espionage credits.
- The show is a co-production brokered by Lionsgate Television and 42 Management & Production with Prime Video holding U.K. and Ireland rights and Paramount+ handling other territories.
- Production is scheduled to begin in October, only Madden has been publicly cast so far, and no premiere date or full cast list has been announced.