Supernatural workplace comedy starring Jelynn Malone, Gigette Reyes, and “Hello, Love, Again” breakout Anthony Jennings premieres June 12 — Filipino Independence Day
LOS ANGELES — iWant, the streaming platform of ABS-CBN, today released the official trailer for “Nurse the Dead”, a supernatural workplace comedy premiering June 12, 2026. This is the first North American flagship original from the platform.
She sees spirits. They see her as management.
“Nurse the Dead” follows Noa Reyes, a Filipina nurse promoted to supervise the most haunted ward in Los Angeles. The staff is chaos, the patients are demanding, and the dead ones won’t stop talking. Across eight half-hour episodes, the series blends hospital comedy, immigrant family dynamics, and unresolved grief through the lens of the Filipino nursing experience in America.
The trailer launch arrives during National Nurses Month and spotlights a community long central to American healthcare.
According to National Nurses United, Filipino nurses represent roughly 4% of the U.S. nursing workforce but accounted for more than 30% of registered nurse deaths reported during the early waves of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Nurse the Dead” is the first scripted U.S. series to place Filipino healthcare workers at its center.
Shot inside a working Los Angeles hospital — on wards that received some of the city’s first COVID-19 patients — the series stars Jelynn Malone (“General Hospital”, “Las Vegas”) as Noa Reyes, alongside Anthony Jennings, one of the Philippines’ fastest-rising leading men following the worldwide success of “Hello, Love, Again”, the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time. Jennings plays Grim, a centuries-old reaper unexpectedly discovering his humanity.
The ensemble also includes Gigette Reyes (“Freakier Friday”) as Tess “Mami Tess” Reyes, Noa’s mother and the emotional center of the series, alongside Johari Johnson (“9-1-1: Lone Star”, “Tyler Perry’s Assisted Living”), Princess Punzalan (“Mula sa Puso”), Ruby Rodriguez (“Eat Bulaga!”, “Hello, Love, Again”), Pablo Azar (“Marido en Alquiler”), and Tootsie Guevara.
The series was created by Mark Labella, a U.S. Navy veteran, medical doctor, and frontline pandemic worker who left clinical medicine after winning a major U.S. screenwriting award. The show was inspired in part by his mother, a Filipina nurse of more than 30 years.
“Comedy comes from pain. That’s how Filipinos grieve,” said Labella. “I wanted a Filipino American kid to sit down and watch this with grandparents from the Philippines and a neighbor across the street who isn’t Filipino — and for all of them to laugh. And maybe cry. And then laugh again. Without Filipino nurses, this story wouldn’t exist. The show is for them, by them, and dedicated to their sacrifice.”
“Nurse the Dead” moves between English, Tagalog, and Spanish — sometimes in the same sentence — reflecting what gets spoken on a hospital floor in Los Angeles.
“Nurse the Dead” premieres June 12, 2026, exclusively on iWant, with new episodes released weekly. The first episode will be available to watch for free.
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