Deputy getting sneak peek on Hulu before FOX series premiere
Deputy is getting released early to Hulu subscribers before the new Stephen Dorff-led TV crime drama premieres on FOX next month.
Hulu viewers will be the first to see FOX‘s new crime drama Deputy.
The streaming service announced on Tuesday that they’ll have a “sneak peek” of the Stephen Dorff series available on Wednesday, Jan. 1—the day before the show premieres on FOX.
Deputy stars Dorff (True Detective) as Bill Hollister, a fifth-generation police officer who gets a massive promotion to Los Angeles County Sheriff when the current one dies of a heart attack. Bill is suddenly thrust into the county’s top job, and all the politics and responsibilities that go with it.
Co-created by filmmaker David Ayer (Training Day, End of Watch) and Will Beall (who was behind CBS‘s TV version of Training Day), the show is supposed to mix crime drama with “the spirit of a classic Western.”
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It also stars Yara Martinez (The Unit) as Dr. Paula Reyes, Bill’s wife who frequently crosses paths with him in her career as a trauma surgeon, and Mark Moses (The Last Ship) in the role of Jerry London, an ambitious officer who doesn’t take kindly to his new boss.
Brian Van Holt (the SWAT film), Siena Goines (Chase), Bex Taylor-Klaus (The Killing), Shane Paul McGhie and Danielle Mone Truitt round out the cast.
The move to have Hulu essentially scoop the FOX premiere of Deputy is an interesting one. On one hand, it may drum up excitement from people who can’t wait to see the show.
On the other, what impact will it have on the series’ live ratings? Will people who streamed this on Hulu not bother to tune into FOX and so the premiere ratings will be softer than they should have been? Live ratings are still the first barometer of success for a new TV show, so Deputy will want the biggest live audience possible to make an early splash.
But there’s no doubt FOX is pushing this show hard as one of its biggest midseason additions. Not only is it partnering with Hulu, but the network’s primetime schedule shows it will also repeat the Deputy premiere on Saturday, Jan. 4. That means people could technically watch it three times in four days, if they wanted to.
Hopefully all of this promotion will work in the show’s favor, and not pull its audience in different directions. We’ll find out come New Year’s Day.
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Deputy premieres Jan. 2 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on FOX.