As if we needed any more Tiger King in our life, Peacock has released new details surrounding its Original series starring John Cameron Mitchell as Joe Exotic and Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin.
The limited series’s official title has been revealed as Joe vs Carole, and is set to premiere in March 2022. Peacock has also released a teaser trailer for the series, which you can watch below.
Synopsis: JOE vs CAROLE is 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, a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel 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.