Peacock has released the Joe vs Carole trailer for the forthcoming limited series, highlighting the intense rivalry between Tiger King stars Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin. The video, which you can check out below, provides us a glimpse of the crazy things that two people will do, just to bring down each other. It is scheduled to make its debut on Thursday, March 3.
A scripted adaptation of the 2020 Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic: Tiger King,” hosted and reported by Robert Moor. The limited series will center on Carole Baskin (Kate McKinnon), a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel (John Cameron Mitchell) is breeding and using his big cats for profit. She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.
Joe vs Carole is based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” which was hosted and reported by Robert Moor. It stars John Cameron Mitchell, Kate McKinnon, Kyle MacLachlan, Brian Van Holt, Sam Keeley, Nat Wolf, Marlo Kelly, William Fichtner, Dean Winters, David Wenham.
“The limited series will center on Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe ‘Exotic’ Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit,” reads the logline. “She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy. The results prove dangerous.”
Joe vs. Carole is written and executive produced by Etan Frankel as part of his overall deal with UCP. Executive producers are McKinnon, Alex Katsnelson, Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, Aaron Hart, and Justin Tipping, who is also serving as a director along with Natalie Bailey.
