Media Murder for Monday

It's the start of a new week and that means it's time for a brand-new roundup of crime drama news:


THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES

Neon is moving the Chloe Domont-directed thriller, A Place in Hell, from a Christmas Day release to April 23, 2027. The project centers on a successful cutthroat criminal defense attorney (played by five-time Oscar nominee Michelle Williams) who is on the verge of making partner when she sees her ambitions upended after a younger lawyer is brought in to replace her, and their rivalry escalates into a dangerous battle for control. Andrew Scott also stars.


Billy Zane (Titanic), John Billingsley (Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey), Scottie Thompson (NCIS) and Bonnie Root (Don’t Let Them Out) have signed on to star in writer-director-actor Philippe Caland’s neo noir thriller, Milliseconds. The film is billed as a complex mystery about a reclusive former painter who becomes drawn into an investigation involving a suicide hotline, unraveling long-buried connections and hidden truths from the past. The cast also includes Elijah Lynn Langston, making his feature film debut, along with Kevin Ryan, Don Wallace, and Jason Lee Daniel.


The first trailer dropped for the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair starring Michael B. Jordan in the title role. The film centers on a debonair art thief (Jordan) who goes toe-to-toe with an insurance investigator smart enough to catch him (Adria Arjona). The 1968 movie focused on a rich playboy (Steve MacQueen) who steals art and co-starred Faye Dunaway, playing the insurance investigator who is every bit his match in a sultry game of chess. In the 1999 Pierce Brosnan version, the protag meets his match in an insurance investigator played by Rene Russo.

 
TELEVISION/STREAMING

Apple TV has acquired the rights to Colson Whitehead's “Harlem” trilogy and is in early development on an ongoing series based on the bestselling crime novels. The books include 2021’s Harlem Shuffle, 2023’s Crook Manifesto, and the recently published Cool Machine. Graham Yost (Silo) and Aric Avelino (American Gun) are adapting the books for the small screen. Whitehead’s trilogy is set in New York and spans the 1950s through the 1980s. Blending crime fiction with social satire, the series follows Ray Carney, a furniture salesman who can’t help but be drawn into the criminal underworld of Harlem. Previously, Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad, was made into a 2021 miniseries for Amazon Prime Video, and his 2019 book, The Nickel Boys, inspired the 2024 film directed by RaMell Ross, which was Oscar-nominated for best picture and best adapted screenplay. Both novels won the Pulitzer Prize. 

Japanese broadcaster Wowow has announced that it’s producing a live-action series based on Riku Onda’s best-selling mystery novel, The Aosawa Murders (Eugenia), set to star Yukino Kishii, known internationally for her role in recent Cannes title All The Lovers In The Night. The six-episode series is scripted by Naoko Adachi (What Did You Eat Yesterday?) with Go Furukawa (Kaneko’s Commissary) as lead director. Hayato Kawai, whose credits include Disney+ series Gannibal, also directs.


Rebecca Hall (The Beauty, The Listeners) has officially been cast as the female lead, Katherine Solomon, on the untitled new Netflix series based on Dan Brown’s novel, The Secret of Secrets. She will star opposite her husband, Morgan Spector, who will play the character of Robert Langdon. In the 2025 novel, symbologist Robert Langdon races against ancient forces and time to rescue a missing scientist and her groundbreaking manuscript whose discoveries have the power to forever change humanity’s understanding of the mind. Katherine is a scientist and Langdon’s girlfriend in the book.


Ahead of the August 12 premiere of Season 4 of Prime Video's Reacher, the drama has added four new series regulars to its Season 5 cast: Jay Baruchel (This Is the End), Kevin Durand (The Naked Gun), Amanda Ip (Cross) and Ciara Bravo (The Most Dangerous Game). The series adaptation of Lee Child’s bestselling “Jack Reacher” novels follows Reacher (Alan Ritchson), a drifter carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served, usually ending up in situations requiring his keen mind and hard-hitting fists. The fifth season of the drama series is based on the 20th book in Lee Child’s global best-selling series, Make Me. In addition to Ritchson, the Season 4 cast also includes Sydelle Noel, Chris Marquette, Agnez Mo, Anggun, Kevin Weisman, Marc Blucas, Kevin Corrigan, and Kathleen Robertson.


Olivia Williams (Dune: Prophecy), Sophie Skelton (Outlander), Indira Varma (The Night Manager) and Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) have been added to the cast for season two of Prime Video‘s Young Sherlock, which charts the origin story of the world’s greatest detective. They join lead, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, who plays the titular character, and fellow returning main cast members Dónal Finn (James Moriarty) as well as Natascha McElhone, Max Irons, and Holly Cattle. Not coming back is Season 1’s female lead Zine Tseng, whose character Xiao Wei/Princess Gulun Shou’an saw her arc wrapped up nicely in the finale, and Joseph Fiennes as Sherlock’s father, Silas Holmes.


Acorn TV has renewed the Stephen Moyer-led crime drama series, Art Detectives, for a second season plus an additional two-part special. This comes after the show, which debuted last year, became its most-watched new series premiere ever. The series will return with a two-part special in December, followed by a six-episode season next year. Art Detectives stars Moyer as art-loving Detective Inspector (DI) Mick Palmer and centers around the Heritage Crime Unit. Joined by DC Shazia Malik (Nina Singh), the pair must solve murders connected to the world of art and antiques. Larry Lamb returns as Ron Palmer, Mick’s art-forging father, who is now serving time in an open prison for handling the stolen Sickert painting that was recovered at the end of Season 1.


CBS set premiere dates for its new and returning drama, comedy, and unscripted series. CBS will debut its latest series in stalwart military police procedural franchise, NCIS: New York, on Tuesday, October 6, between the new seasons of the mothership series and Origins. New legal drama Cupertino will arrive Thursday, October 8. Season 3 of the Kathy Bates drama, Matlock, and the series premiere of crime dramedy Einstein will bow in midseason


PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO

On the Poisoned Pen bookstore podcast, Barbara Peters was in conversation with Bryan Gruley about his latest thriller, River Deep.


On Crime Time FM Jenna Gordon chatted with author Laura Sims about her new novel, The Man; Hitchcock, Highsmith, and Rear Window; perspective and the male gaze and more.


Authors on the Air welcomed Lauren Nossett, a professor turned novelist and the award-winning author of the thrillers The Resemblance and The Professor.


Get to Know hosts Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle chatted with Elizabeth Little, author of the thrillers Dear Daughter and Pretty as a Picture.


The Sisters in Crime podcast spoke with Liz Bullard, a therapist, coach, and multi‑genre author of such works as The Prophecy Series and the Lira Somers Mysteries.


Murder Junction was live from the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2026, one of the world's biggest crime and thriller festivals.  


On Pick Your Poison, Dr. Jen Prosser investigated a notorious green spirit served in a Belle Époque bar, a violent patient hallucinating and fighting invisible enemies, and a medical myth linked to some of history’s most famous artists.