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‘Next’ for Fox: Technology as the villain in new drama John Slattery stars in the suspense series “NEXT,” premiering Tuesday on Fox. BY JAY BOBBIN BY JAY BOBBIN Gallaudet University is ‘Deaf U’ in Netflix reality series An artificial hyper-
Gallaudet University has been a renowned “Deaf U” institution for many years, but it’s about to get one intelligence may be Fox’s of the biggest showcases it has had. If you’re already dazzled or baffled by artificial matter?’ And he said, ‘My Alexa started talking Streaming on Netflix starting Friday, Oct. 9, intelligence, wait until you see what’s next. to me at 3 a.m. out of the blue, for no reason.’ “Deaf U” is an unscripted series following several He claimed this had happened a couple of times, friends at the Washington, D.C., private school for Technology runs amok – with dangerous the deaf and hard of hearing. Though the students implications for virtually everyone – in “NEXT,” so I didn’t know if he could set an alarm or have related challenges, they say they support the a Fox drama series originally slated for last what. We never got down to the mystery, but program’s aim to show that each leads his or her spring, but now helping to fill the network’s those things kind of seem to have a mind of own productive life. pandemic-impacted fall lineup as it debuts their own every once in a while.” “This is a very tight-knit group who all come to Tuesday, Oct. 6. “Mad Men” alum John Slattery Slattery agrees by noting, “You have a the table with different stories, different histories stars as a tech expert who finds that one of conversation with someone, and the next day, and a lot of drama,” says Nyle DiMarco, a deaf his own creations has gotten away from him, your phone is blowing up with ads for whatever model and a “Deaf U” executive producer, “but reaching through the internet with the potential you were talking about. Every time you look at the point of it all is that deaf people are human, to invade and manipulate the lives of anyone Instagram and you hit something, then you’re the same as hearing people. We go through the Cheyenna Clearbrook approached becoming a who’s connected. Fernanda Andrade (“The Devil loaded up with ads for whatever. It’s obviously same things in life, and you’ll see that through this “Deaf U” subject a bit differently: “For me, it was Inside”) plays an FBI cybercrime agent he joins watching ... I just feel like I’m not necessarily show.” like, ‘if I go on this show, I could break boundaries to fight the threat. doing anything interesting enough to worry “When I first joined the show, I wasn’t super- for everyone out there.’ It gives an opportunity While Charlie Gogolak, John Requa and thrilled about it,” admits participant Daequan about it.” for other people in the world to see what it is that Glenn Ficarra of “This Is Us” are amiong Taylor, “but meeting with production (staff we have, a deaf culture ... what it looks like, our Additional “NEXT” cast regulars include members), they explained a little bit about the different backgrounds, whether we’ve gone to deaf executive producers of “NEXT,” so is “24” “Ozark” co-stars Michael Mosley and Jason situation that I would be in. And everybody was schools or mainstream schools. It just gives us a veteran Manny Coto, who also created it. “The Butler Harner as well as Eve Harlow (“Marvel’s kind of on the same page as me, and I thought, chance to share that, and I thought it would be a whole premise of the show started because of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) and Evan Whitten Alexa,” Coto says of that device. “My son woke ‘Well, fine, I’ll share my background.’ ” wonderful opportunity.” (“The Resident”). Though the artificial- me up one morning, and I was like, ‘What’s the intelligence concept might suggest the characters stand around and do a lot of talking about it, Coto was determined from the outset to make Publisher/Executive Editor Steven Pappas the series more than that. “If a group of people found out about it, it General Sales Manager Tim Duguay would not strike in large, huge assaults,” he reasons. “It would go after them in the smallest way possible so as not to be detected, which Creative Services Manager Keri Franzoni inherently led to a story whereby this AI – which knows everything about our characters – Customer Service Manager Melody Hudson is actually attacking them through their personal The suspense series lives and slowly trying to destroy their lives and “NEXT” premieres their careers, so that they can in turn not attack Tuesday on Fox. it. It was a challenge, but research kind of gave
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