Crime Story Editor

This week, Apple TV+ released Black Bird, a new limited series executive produced by Crime Story Media and so far, it's received a slew of rave reviews from critics and a 98% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Here are a few excerpts from those reviews: Apple TV+’s prison-set drama series capitalizes on Egerton’s movie-star charisma and twists it into something darker and much more haunting than he’s ever been on screen. - The Daily Beast The riveting Black Bird sustains six hours of tension in its telling of a remarkable true story. - RogerEbert.com This taut and compelling series is all...

Black Bird, the Crime Story Media-produced limited series which debuts on Apple TV+ next Friday, July 8 had its world premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Here is an early review from The Playlist. Among the highlights is this: "Black Bird is the type of expertly built, thoughtfully crafted drama that makes its seams invisible, so that it’s nearly impossible to point to any one section of the six-hour story and declare it the reason the show is so good."  We've included some coverage of the premiere event below—check it out, and be sure to tune in when the limited series...

Today, Apple unveiled the trailer for their upcoming original, Black Bird, starring Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser. This six-episode limited series executive produced by showrunner Dennis Lehane and our own Kary Antholis, among others, is set to debut globally on Apple TV+ Friday, July 8th. Watch the official trailer in full, above! When high school football hero, decorated policeman’s son, and convicted drug dealer Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum-security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime—enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter...

Can't get enough of We Own This City? Well, guess what—there's a weekly companion podcast produced by HBO that takes you behind the scenes of this gripping limited series. Kary Antholis, our founder and an Executive Producer of We Own This City, is also a Consulting Producer for the podcast. Over the course of six episodes, host D. Watkins shares his experiences in and out of the writers’ room and speaks to the people who brought this story to the screen, including executive producers George Pelecanos and David Simon, actor Jon Bernthal, actor Wunmi Mosaku, and director Reinaldo Marcus Green....

Based on the book by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, We Own This City chronicles the rise and fall of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force and the corruption and moral collapse that befell an American city in which the policies of drug prohibition and mass arrest were championed at the expense of actual police work.

Apple TV+ is giving viewers their first look at the upcoming psychological thriller, Black Bird—a gritty and suspenseful, six-episode drama inspired by actual events, starring Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser. When high school football hero, decorated policeman’s son, and convicted drug dealer Jimmy Keene (Taron Egerton) is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum-security prison, he is given the choice of a lifetime—enter a maximum-security prison for the criminally insane and befriend suspected serial killer Larry Hall (Paul Walter Hauser), or stay where he is and serve his full sentence with no possibility of parole. Keene quickly realizes his...