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
Bad Sisters creator, Sharon Horgan, is planning to bring an adaptation of the novel, Vladimir by Julia May Jonas, to the screen. The book tells the story of a college professor who cultivates an obsession with a new faculty member on campus after her husband becomes embroiled in a sexual misconduct controversy.
Matt Reeves’s The Batman sequel is being pushed back a year from Oct. 2, 2026 to Oct. 1, 2027. Taking over The Batman sequel’s place in the original release slot is director Alejandro González Iñárritu's untitled thriller with Tom Cruise, which follows the most powerful man in the world who embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything. The movie also stars Sandra Hüller, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Sophie Wilde, and Riz Ahmed.
TELEVISION/STREAMING
The Dexter "Trinity Killer" prequel series, following the makings of the notorious serial killer played by John Lithgow in the mothership series, remains "in development" at Paramount+ with Showtime. Original Dexter showrunner, Clyde Phillips, and fellow Dexter veteran, Scott Reynolds, serve as co-creators and executive producers of the Trinity Killer spinoff prequel. The project follows Original Sin, which premiered Dec. 13, itself a prequel to the first Dexter series, featuring the origin story of Dexter Morgan as he begins a forensics internship at the Miami Metro Police Department and slowly becomes a serial killer with a "moral" code.
Netflix has dropped the first trailer for Zero Day, the upcoming limited series starring Robert De Niro as respected former U.S. President George Mullen, who, as head of the Zero Day Commission, is charged with finding the perpetrators of a devastating cyber attack that has caused chaos around the country and thousands of fatalities.
Newly minted Night Action agent Peter Sutherland (Gabriel Basso) gets plenty of action in the trailer for Season 2 of hit Netflix drama series, The Night Agent, based on the novel by Matthew Quirk. He's joined by two more familiar faces, cyber security expert Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan), Peter’s charge in Season 1 who is back by his side, as well as Kari Matchett as President Michelle Travers whose life the duo saved last season. The trailer also introduces new Season 2 heroes and villains, most notably Peter’s new Night Action boss Catherine Weaver, played by Amanda Warren.
Deadline posted the "2025 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming," starting off on New Year's Day with Homicide Squad New Orleans (on A&E, a new docuseries), Only Murders in the Building (ABC, Season 2 of the network broadcast premiere) on January 2nd, and much more.
PODCASTS/RADIO
Authors on the Air welcomed author Andromeda Romano-Lax, who has established a niche in historical fiction with stories like The Spanish Bow, and speculative fiction with Plum Rain. Her first psychological suspense novel, The Deepest Lake, takes a plunge into the dark side of elite writing retreats and the lengths a mother will go to find her missing daughter
On the Cops and Writers podcast, Patrick J. O'Donnell spoke with retired NYPD Detective-turned-author, Vic Ferrari, about the homicide of United Health Care’s CEO, Brian Thompson, and the suspected killer, Luigi Mangione, and they discussed Ferrari's newest book, NYPD: Presumption & Dysfunction.
Crime Time FM with Paul Burke featured a Review Show, looking at new titles published at the end of 2024 and into January 2025.
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