In the last few months, we have heard a great number of news related to Apple's plans to create its streaming video platform. Many are the agreements that Apple has reached with different producers, actors and actresses to begin working on the content that Apple is looking for for its streaming platform, content where sex and foul vocabulary have no place.
One of the agreements reached at the beginning of January was with the actress Octavia Spencer, one of the actresses who has had the most critical success in recent years and who has starred in the films The Shape of Water, Maids and Ladies, Hidden figures ... Octavia Spencer will be the main protagonist of the series Are You Sleeping, based on the novel by Kathleen Barber and whose production has already begun.
The novel centers on a podcast that reopens a murder case, similar to the popular "Serial" podcast that led to a retrial of Adnan Syed, a prisoner for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend. The novel on which the TV show is based explores how the reopening of the murder case it affects the victim's daughter and interrupts her life.
The script for this series has been written by Nichelle Tramble Spellman and is produced by Hello Sunshine and Chernin Entertainment, of which actress Reese Witherspoon is one of the owners. This It is not the only series that the actress and Apple collaborateas they are also working on a "morning drama" that has no title yet.
Currently, the Cupertino boys are working on a dozen TV series, products that are destined for the streaming video platform that will see the light of day in March of next year at the earliest.