Cornelius Smith Jr. ‘Five Days at Memorial’ limited series coming to Apple TV+

“Scandal” alum Cornelius Smith Jr. has been tapped as a lead opposite Vera Farmiga and Adepero Oduye in Five Days at Memorial, Apple TV+’s limited series from John Ridley, Carlton Cuse and ABC Signature, reports Deadline.

The article says he’ll play Dr. Bryant King, “an internist and one of the few doctors of color at the hospital, who finds himself very much in the middle of the crisis.”

Based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheri Fink, the limited series chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. When the floodwaters rose, the power failed and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions that haunted them for years to come. Fink will serve as a producer on the project.

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