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Gerda Weissmann Klein, who as a teen survived the Holocaust before becoming an author, activist, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and subject of a 1995 Oscar-and-Emmy winning film, died yesterday according to that film’s director, Kary Antholis. She was 97. Born in 1924, Weissmann Klein was sent to Nazi…

The podcast-to-TV boom continues with HBO adapting the third season of Serial as a limited series. The network is developing the remake with rising writer/director Shola Amoo and exec produced by Lebron James and former HBO exec Kary Antholis. The third season of the award-winning podcast, which arguably set in motion…

EXCLUSIVE: Crime Story Media has partnered with leading global podcast company Acast on the original series Jury Duty: The Trial of Robert Durst. Acast will host, distribute, and monetize the podcast series, which will follow the upcoming Durst murder trial in real time. Durst is charged with the killing of his friend…

EXCLUSIVE: Exoneree and journalist Amanda Knox, in collaboration with novelist/journalist Christopher Robinson, has teamed with Kary Antholis’ Crime Story Media on Incarceration and Exoneration In A Time Of Pandemic, a new regular interview series set amid the coronavirus crisis. The interview series explores stories…

Kary Antholis, who stepped down as President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming in June after more than 25 years at the company, has launched his new venture, Crime Story, a news and storytelling website dedicated to crime and justice stories. The site is a partnership with Talking Points Memo, which will feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Kary Antholis, President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, will be leaving the company after more than 25 years. Following Antholis’ exit, HBO Films president Len Amato will expand his current role to also assume Antholis’ responsibilities in his new post as President, HBO Films, Miniseries and…

David Simon and his producing partner Nina K. Noble are known for groundbreaking dramas that shed light on institutional dysfunction and pressing social issues in very different areas of the country. That being said, he has some opinions about the Donald Trump administration. So when he tweeted out that a POTUS…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinemax is recalibrating its original programming strategy, returning to the type of fare that launched its push into original primetime series: fun, high-octane, action, pulpy, straight-to-series dramas done in a cost-effective way primarily as international co-productions. It is fitting that one of the…