At San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday (July 25) afternoon, the cast and creatives of Teacup revealed a first look at the creepy new horror series, an adaptation of Robert R. McCammon’s book Stinger . Along with an unsettling video teaser , the streamer revealed a ton of key details about Teacup , so here’s everything we know.
Peacock revealed that the series will premiere with its first two episodes on Thursday, October 10, with two episodes arriving weekly through Halloween for a total of eight, 30-minute episodes. The cast of the show is led by Yvonne Strahovski , Scott Speedman , and Chaske Spencer , who were all on the SDCC panel to present the series. It also features Kathy Baker, Boris McGiver, Caleb Dolden, Emilie Bierre, and Luciano Leroux.
Ian McCulloch serves as showrunner, while E.L. Katz directs.
Executive-producing the series are McCulloch and Katz alongside author Robert R. McCammon, James Wan , Michael Clear, Rob Hackett, Francisca X. Hu, and Kevin Tancharoen.
Daniel McFadden/PEACOCK What is Teacup about? The official logline of the adaptation is: “ Teacup follows a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive. Inspired by the New York Times bestselling novel Stinger by Robert McCammon.” The story of Stinger , the book upon which the series is based, centers on a Texas town that’s beset with poverty and division until an alien in human form named Daufin arrives and is quickly fol.