Prime Video Reveals Premiere Date, First-Look Images, and Key Art for New Adult Animated Comedy Series The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy From Creator Cirocco Dunlap

Stephanie Hsu joins the cast of the animated sci-fi comedy

The series will debut all eight episodes on February 23, 2024

CULVER CITY, California—December 18, 2023—Today, Prime Video announced the premiere date and revealed the series key art and first-look images for The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy (previously announced as The Hospital). All eight episodes of the adult animated sci-fi comedy from Emmy Award winning creator Cirocco Dunlap, and Maya Rudolph, Danielle Renfrew Behrens and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Pictures, will debut on February 23, 2024. Produced by Amazon MGM Studios, with animation by Titmouse Studios, the series, which has a two-season order, will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Academy Award nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once)has joined the cast as a series regular, alongside previously announced cast members Maya Rudolph, Natasha Lyonne, Keke Palmer, Kieran Culkin, and Sam Smith.

The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy follows Dr. Sleech and Dr. Klak—aliens, best friends, and intergalactically renowned surgeons—as they tackle anxiety-eating parasites, illegal time loops, and deep-space STIs. In Season One, doctors Sleech and Klak take on a highly dangerous and potentially groundbreaking case and, in doing so, put existence itself in jeopardy. Although considering their dismal personal lives, oblivion might be an improvement.

Cirocco Dunlap also serves as showrunner, writer, and executive producer along with EPs Maya Rudolph, Danielle Renfrew Behrens and Natasha Lyonne for Animal Pictures. Shauna McGarry. Shannon Prynoski, Chris Prynoski, Antonio Canobbio, and Ben Kalina from Titmouse will executive produce. Artist and animator Robin Eisenberg will co-produce and serve as production designer.

 

About Stephanie Hsu:
STEPHANIE HSU recently starred in the dual role ‘Joy/Jobu’ in the A24 Oscar winning and BAFTA nominated film Everything Everywhere All At Once  from the directing team Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). The story follows the mother/daughter relationship through a multiverse with infinite versions of their lives. The film, which also starred Michelle Yeoh, Key Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis, debuted at SXSW and released in theaters  April 2022 to rave reviews. The film has reached box office records for an indie arthouse film crossing the $100 million mark in global ticket sales, the first A24 film to hit that benchmark. Stephanie earned individual Oscar and SAG Award nominations in the category of  Best Supporting Actress. She won the Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards and has been honored at the Hamptons Film Festival as their Breakthrough Artist honoree, the Middleburg Film Festival as their Rising Star honoree, the Newport Film Festival as one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch, the San Francisco Film Festival with The George Gund III Award for Breakthrough Performance and at the Santa Barbara Film Festival as one of their Virtuosos honorees. The film won a Gotham Award and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Feature, a SAG Award for Cast in a Motion Picture and has been recognized as AFI’s Movie of the Year. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing and was also nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards.

Stephanie is also part of the cast of Amazon’s Emmy-winning hit show, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” as ‘Mei,’ the provocative love-interest to ‘Joel Maisel.’ The cast won a SAG Award in 2020 for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series.   This past Summer, Stephanie starred in a lead role in Adele Lim’s Joy Ride alongside Ashley Park, Sherry Cola and Sabrina Wu. The film, produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s company, Point Grey, follows the epic journey of four Asian-American women traveling through Asia in search of one of their birth mothers. Their experience becomes one of bonding, belonging and debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are. The film debuted at SXSW in March and released in theaters on July 7, 2023.  Additionally, Stephanie guest starred in the Peacock anthology series Poker Face, created by Rian Johnson and starring Natasha Lyonne and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Stephanie is also set to guest star in the Disney+ Series “American Born Chinese” alongside Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan. The series is written, and executive produced by Kelvin Yu.

Upcoming, Stephanie will be seen in Universal’s The Fall Guy, alongside Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson. The David Leitch directed film will be released on May 3, 2024.

Stephanie originated the role of ‘Christine Canigula’ in the audience favorite Broadway sensation, Be More Chill. For this performance Stephanie received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award Nomination. She has performed all over NYC from downtown to uptown making her Broadway debut as ‘Karen The Computer’ in SpongeBob Squarepants The Musical. Her past television and film credits include a recurring role on The Path, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens, Femme, Set It Up, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Girl Code.
 

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