THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Pitch Perfect director, Jason Moore, is set to helm a feature adaptation of the classic TV series Murder, She Wrote, starring the Oscar-winning Jamie Lee Curtis in the role made famous by Angela Lansbury. Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo wrote the screenplay based on the CBS series created by Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson, and William Link. Lansbury starred from 1984-96 in what became one of the most successful and longest-running shows in TV history. Her Jessica Fletcher was a retired schoolteacher-turned-successful mystery writer who proves to have an uncanny knack for solving real-life murders. The show was set primarily in the seaside town of Cabot Cove, Maine, though Jessica often traveled to other locales as cases unfolded.
Filmmaker Michael Diliberti is set to direct Miami PI, a project he wrote for Endurance Media. The film is billed as a comedy following a wayward private investigator and a volatile ex-model who are pulled into a murder investigation during the chaos of Miami Swim Week. As they descend into a sun-drenched world of excess, deception, and danger, the unlikely duo must navigate criminal conspiracies — and an unexpected romantic connection — that threatens to derail them both.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
Ella Stiller (HBO’s The Comeback) has landed a series regular role opposite Mike Colter in Cupertino, CBS's new legal drama from The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King. She’ll play Christy, a young assistant at the new start-up law firm in Cupertino, California, that’s at the heart of the story. Cupertino is a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley that follows a lawyer (Colter) who is being cheated out of his stock-options by his former employer, a tech start-up. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite, and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley. The series is set to premiere during the 2026-27 season,
Both Paramount and Netflix are vying for ownership of Warner Brothers-Discovery, which makes this particular deal a bit surprising, but the two companies have agreed on a content licensing partnership that will bring roughly 20 Paramount TV shows to the streamer. Among those are crime dramas Mayor of Kingstown and Watson in the U.S. and international territories, and Matlock in international markets.
A trailer was released for Season 3 of The Night Agent. Night Agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) is called in to track down a young Treasury Agent, Jay Batra (Suraj Sharma), who fled to Istanbul with sensitive government intel after killing his boss. This kicks off a sequence of events where Peter investigates a dark money network while avoiding its paid assassins, putting him on a collision course with a relentless journalist, Isabel (Genesis Rodriguez). Working together, they uncover buried secrets and old grudges that threaten to bring the government to its knees — and get them both killed in the process.
CBS has handed out ten renewals across its drama and comedy slate for the 2026-27 TV season. Among the crime dramas given new season orders are Tracker, Matlock, Elsbeth, and all NCIS series — flagship NCIS, prequel series NCIS: Origins, and spinoff series NCIS: Sydney. The news leaves the fate of Watson and Harlan Coben’s Final Twist, as well as series that have not yet premiered (Yellowstone spinoff Marshals, and FBI spinoff CIA, among them) in the air. Decisions for those series will come at a later date.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
Get to Know podcast hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim were in conversation with bestselling author Allison Brennan about her latest thriller, Make It Out Alive.
Debbi Mack's latest guest on the Crime Cafe podcast was crime writer and publisher of The Real Book Spy on Substack, Ryan Steck.
On this latest Spybrary podcast, British political journalist Tim Shipman was in conversation with David McCloskey, a former CIA analyst turned novelist, discussing his fourth and most ambitious book yet, The Persian.
On Crime Time FM, Malcolm Kempt chatted with Paul Burke about A Gift Before Dying; the Arctic and Inuit culture; reading outside your genre; and handing out guns to prisoners.
Pick Your Poison host Dr. Jen Prosser investigated a toxin that affects humans, but not bees, as well as a contaminated substance so valuable, people risk their lives to collect it, and a popular natural substance used in biological warfare in wars between Russia and Ukraine in the past.
THEATRE
The upcoming Broadway adaptation of Sidney Lumet’s gritty classic film, Dog Day Afternoon, has added three to its cast, including John Ortiz (American Gangster), three-time Tony Award nominee Jessica Hecht (Breaking Bad), and Spencer Garrett (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). Ortiz will play Detective Ferrara, Hecht will play Colleen, and Garrett will play FBI Agent Sheldon. As previously announced, Jon Bernthal will play Sonny Amato (portrayed in the film by Al Pacino) and Ebon Moss-Bachrach will play Sal DeSilva (John Cazale in the movie). Lumet’s 1975 film and this Broadway adaptation are based on a real Brooklyn bank robbery and hostage incident from 1972 that ignited the city as they followed the actions of a man on the edge. Directed by Olivier Award nominee Rupert Goold (Ink) and written by Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis (Between Riverside and Crazy), Dog Day Afternoon will begin Broadway previews Tuesday, March 10, and officially open Monday, March 30, at the August Wilson Theatre in New York City.
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