THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Back in 2022, it was revealed that Studiocanal and The Picture Company were turning the Agatha Christie 1967 thriller classic, Endless Night, into a feature film and hired Preston Thompson to adapt it. The studio announced this week they've hired Jonathan Entwistle to direct the project, a modern, psychological thriller that serves as a reimagining of Agatha Christie’s classic novel, and that Emily Siegel will instead be adapting the script. The film follows an ambitious twentysomething hustler who ends up entangled in a web of blame and deception after he gets romantically involved with a volatile American heiress and her assistant. Back in May of this year, the BBC announced they were turning the same novel into a three-part series from an adaptation by Sarah Phelps (A Very British Scandal).
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Amanda Seyfried will star in and executive produce a TV adaptation of Carl Hiaasen’s Skinny Dip in the works at Amazon’s Prime Video. Produced by Warner Bros. Television, Skinny Dip hails from Once Upon a Time co-creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, who serve as co-executive producers and writers. The one-hour dramedy series is described as an “action-romantic-comedy-triangle about murder, vengeance and the elusiveness of true accountability in this world.” Seyfried will star as Joey Perrone, whose second anniversary takes her by surprise. “She expected earrings, but instead, her husband Chaz had, shall we say, alternate plans,” per the official logline. After unexpectedly finding herself on the other side of those plans, she vows to get revenge and teams up with a disgraced ex-cop to make Chaz pay.
Netflix has acquired the rights to Emily Giffin’s All We Ever Wanted for a series adaptation now in development. The series logline describes the project as “A soapy and scandalous drama that uncovers the secrets and class struggles of a wealthy suburb; where a torrid love affair between a ‘have’ Mom and ‘have-not’ single Dad threatens to expose the sins and lies of all of those around them.” The project reunites Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben, whose co-written thriller novel, Gone Before Goodbye, was published Oct. 9, 2025 and debuted as a New York Times bestseller. All We Ever Wanted is the pair’s first series adaptation together.
Netflix has set the big return of The Lincoln Lawyer‘s fourth season for Thursday, February 5, and released first-look images. Based on the series of bestselling novels by author Michael Connelly, the fourth season is based on the sixth book in “The Lincoln Lawyer” series, The Law of Innocence. Mickey Haller (Manuel Garcia Rulfo) faces his toughest case yet as he and his team work tirelessly to prove his innocence in the murder of a former client, Sam Scales (Christopher Thornton). To clear his name, they must unravel Sam’s final scam, forcing them to go head-to-head with the DA’s office, the FBI, and ghosts from Mickey’s own past.
Prime Video released some of the first images for Young Sherlock, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as Sherlock Holmes, and also revealed that the origin story from Guy Ritchie will premiere on Prime Video in 2026. Young Sherlock follows the beginnings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s beloved detective in a re-imagining of the iconic character’s early days. Sherlock Holmes is a disgraced young man – raw and unfiltered – when he finds himself wrapped up in a murder case that threatens his liberty. His first-ever case unravels a globe-trotting conspiracy that changes his life forever. Unfolding in 1870s Oxford and adventuring abroad, the series will expose the early antics of the anarchic adolescent who is yet to evolve into Baker Street’s most renowned resident.
Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal (Thor: Ragnarok and Punisher) are uniting for a Netflix limited crime series titled His & Hers. Based on the novel by Alice Feeney, the series stars Thompson as reclusive news anchor Anna Andrews and Bernthal as small-town detective Jack Harper. When a brutal murder rocks their small town of Dahlonega, Georgia, the pair find themselves drawn to the case from different sides. The problem is, they're also married. But Anna and Jack's marriage is a complicated one, as the pair are estranged, and tension simmers between them in every scene. Anna is coming at the case from a journalistic angle, hoping to catch the killer and spin a compelling news story. Her investigations cause trouble for Jack, and the couple soon begins to suspect one another of being involved in this heinous crime. His & Hers also stars Pablo Schreiber, Crystal Fox, Sunita Mani, Rebecca Rittenhouse, Marin Ireland, and Poppy Liu.
Netflix‘s All The Sinners Bleed has added 11 new cast members joining the already cast Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, John Douglas Thompson, Nicole Beharie, Daniel Ezra, Andrea Cortés, Murray Bartlett, and Leila George. The new cast included Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) as Ezekiel Wiggins; David Lyons (Truth Be Told) as Jasper Sanderson; Donald Elise Watkins (Emergency) as Deputy Trey Avery; Mackenzie Astin (The Pitt) as Deputy Pip Collins; Jordan M. Cox (P-Valley) as Deputy Tom Sadler; Cullen Moss (Outer Banks) as Deputy Roger Simmons; Angus O’Brien (Boots) as Deputy Davy Burks; Cranston Johnson (Hap and Leonard) as Reverend Jamal Addison; Christopher Matthew Cook (High Potential) as Royce Lazare; Christopher Thornton (The Lincoln Lawyer) as Dispatcher Cam Trowder; and Bill Oberst Jr. (Criminal Minds) as Pastor Elias Hillington. From showrunner and executive producer Joe Robert Cole, who adapted S.A. Cosby’s novel of the same name for TV, All The Sinners Bleed follows Titus Crown (Dìrísù), the first Black sheriff in a small Bible Belt county. Haunted by his devout mother’s untimely death, he must lead the hunt for a serial killer who has been preying on his Black community for years in the name of God.
Down Cemetery Road, the hit UK thriller based on the book by Mick Herron and starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson, has been handed a second season order for Apple TV. Season 2 reunites Zoë Boehm (Thompson) and Sarah Trafford (Wilson) chasing down another twisted mystery. After a woman falls in front of a train, Zoë is called in to investigate, but this seemingly simple case soon upends her life as she and Sarah find themselves navigating the glamorous but ruthless world of black market antiquities.
Former Family Guy showrunner Steve Callaghan is spearheading the cozy crime drama, Trivia Night Mysteries. Shooting has wrapped on the 90-minute pilot, the first of a planned mystery movie series with a Q1 2026 launch planned. Filmed on location in Jefferson City, Missouri, the project stars Morgan Bradley (Heartstrings Attached) as Sara Keane, a sharp-witted fact-checker and trivia champ who turns amateur sleuth when a rival player is found murdered, and Alex Trumble (A Scottish Christmas Secret) as Reid Taggart, a charming lawyer who becomes both Sara’s partner-in-crime-solving and potential love interest. Pre-production on further installments of Trivia Night Mysteries is already underway.
Prime Video released a first look and premiere date for 56 Days (fka Obsession), the upcoming erotic thriller series based on Catherine Ryan Howard’s bestseller, starring Dove Cameron and Avan Jogia. All eight episodes of the series will drop on Wednesday, Feb. 18. Written and executive produced by Lisa Zwerling and Karyn Usher, 56 Days follows Oliver (Jogia) and Ciara (Cameron), who, after meeting randomly in a supermarket, fall for each other fast, and dangerously hard. Fifty-six days later, homicide investigators arrive at Oliver’s apartment to find an unidentified body—brutally murdered and intentionally decomposed beyond recognition. Did he kill her? Or did she kill him? Inter-cutting between an intense single day in the present investigation, and the twisted trajectory of the young lovers’ affair in the past, the series is both a crime story and a sexy, psychological thriller.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
Barbara Peters had a holiday conversation with Cara Black (Huguette), Paula Munier (The Snow Lies Deep), and Matt Goldman (Dark Humor, of the Nils Shapiro series) on the Poisoned Pen podcast.
On the Get to Know podcast, Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle were in conversation with best-selling author T. Jefferson Parker.
Crime Time FM host Victoria Selman was joined by Steve Cavanagh (the Eddie Flynn series), Holly Seddon (Fifty-Nine Minutes), and SR Masters (The Drop).
Authors on the Air featured a holiday chat with David Rosenfelt about his latest book, And to All a Good Bite, book #32 in the Andy Carpenter series.
Spybrary host Shane Whaley was joined by returning guest and leading James Bond authority Ajay Chowdhury, co-author of the newly released James Bond locations guide, Darker Than the Sun. This isn't your typical location guide, though; Darker Than the Sun is an immersive, richly visual atlas that blends real geography, fictional locales, and behind-the-scenes insights into how Bond movies have mapped and redefined the spy film landscape.
On the Pick Your Poison podcast, Dr. Jen Prosser investigated what easily available product in the drug store works like botulism and why enemas were used to treat brain injuries.
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