HBO, LeBron James Developing Serial Season 3 Into HBO Limited Series
As in the podcast, the series will explore the Ohio criminal justice system.
Serial, the hit podcast devoted to thoroughly telling a single true-crime story each season, will have its third season adapted into a limited series for HBO according to
The Hollywood Reporter. The series doesn t yet have a name, but host Sarah Koenig will executive produce alongside professional basketball player LeBron James via his production company SpringHill Entertainment.
The podcast s third season, which first aired in 2018, explores the criminal justice system in Cleveland. (James was born in Akron, Ohio and has family ties to the state.) The untitled drama will reportedly follow a young cop and the man he s accused of beating while illuminating the flawed inner-workings of a middle-American courthouse and how the system impacts everyone it touches, from cops, lawyers, and citizens accused of and victimized by crimes.
January 27th, 2021
Serial host Sarah Koenig at The 74th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony. Jemal Countess via Getty Images
The third season of
Serial is being turned into a TV series. HBO is adapting the nine-episode run, which examined multiple cases handled by the Cleveland justice system. According to
Deadline, writer and director Shola Amoo (
The Last Tree) is involved, with
Serial host Sarah Koenig, NBA superstar LeBron James and former HBO miniseries chief Kary Antholis as executive producers. The currently untitled drama will reportedly follow a young police officer and a man that he’s accused of beating. The case will be a lens for the court system and everything it touches, including lawyers and citizens that have been accused of and victimized by crimes.
Serial Season 3 to Become HBO Limited Series
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Serial season three is getting the TV treatment.
HBO is developing an untitled limited series based on the 2018 third season of the podcast that explored the criminal justice system at work in Cleveland. Host Sarah Koenig will exec produce alongside LeBron James and his SpringHill banner.
The untitled drama will follow a young cop and the man he s accused of beating as the potential series illuminates the flawed inner workings of a middle-American courthouse and how the system impacts everyone it touches, from cops to lawyers and citizens accused of and victimized by crimes.
By Nikki Baughan2020-12-23T15:00:00+00:00
The founder of The British Blacklist tells
Screen why the time is right for black creative talent to become a force within the UK industry
Source: The British Blacklist
Akua Gyamfi
Writer and broadcaster Akua Gyamfi founded The British Blacklist (TBB) in 2012, as an online portal to celebrate and promote the work of British African and Caribbean creatives working across screen, stage, sound and literature through features, reviews and events. Gyamfi has also worked as an entertainment writer, script consultant and producer, including at the BBC Writersroom, where she collaborated with director Mark 1 on the anti-knife and gun crime short film
ThyBlackMan.com) 2020 kept us on our toes. Adapting became a way of life especially for
films and their fans. Part of the adjustment movie lovers had to make was viewing films on VOD and streaming services while only a few enthusiasts ventured out to near-empty theaters.
Within that context, here’s a look at the best and the brightest in films no matter where you saw them.
Enjoy.
The Closet
( ) – Bless the demon children in this atypical genre film. Better yet bless the young actresses (Yool Heo and Si-ah Kim) who play them for crying and screaming like they’d just been told there’s no Santa Clause. Korean director Kwang-bin Kim gives this cautionary tale about abused and neglected kids a home in a horror movie that beats out all the other contenders (and there were many) that graced fright screens this year. A stormy cloud of reality, mysticism and intrigue presses all the right buttons and makes you scared in the right ways.