Back in 2019, Apple TV+ jumped on the true crime craze with “Truth Be Told,” which stars Octavia Spencer as a podcaster out to prove a convicted murderer’s innocence. Critics didn’t like the series, but the show garnered enough views for another season in 2021. Now, “Truth Be Told” returns for Season 3, with Spencer on another grisly case.

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Based on Kathleen Barber‘s novel of the same name, itself inspired by the hit podcast “Serial,” “Truth Be Told” centers on Spencer’s Poppy Parnell, a journalist who runs a successful true-crime podcast.

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Following a rather slow month for television aside from standouts such as Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso,” it would seem like we’re back in the swing of things with plenty of series debuts and follow-ups returning this month and a lot of big names accompanying them. Nicole Kidman will once again gear up for a splashy television role, this time positioned more as the antagonist figure while Joseph Gordon-Levitt tries to do it all in his series “Mr.

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Apple TV+ might not have the most subscribers amongst streaming services. The platform might not have the most awards, either. However, you’d be hardpressed to find a streaming service that can compete with Apple TV+ when it comes to sheer star power. And that’s on display in the second season of “Truth Be Told.”

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As seen in the trailer for Season 2 of “Truth Be Told,” Octavia Spencer returns as the host of a true-crime podcast that once again finds herself drawn into a murder mystery that she must help to solve.

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Octavia Spencer is at the level where we are going to watch just about anything she appears in. And while the first season of “Truth Be Told” on Apple TV+ didn’t necessarily get the same buzz as other shows debuting on the streamer, Season 2 begins a new story and serves as a pretty good jumping-on point for those wanting to see what Spencer is up to.

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The streaming wars are fully upon us, and as summer goes into full swing, AppleTV+ is starting to flex its wares. Today, the streamer unveiled an exclusive preview of new series and films coming to Apple TV+ now through Fall 2021.  The clip features first looks at things like “The Morning Show” season two, “Ted Lasso” season two, more footage of their expensive sci-fi “Foundation” Isaac Asimov series adaptation, and, perhaps most interesting to us, the upcoming series “The Shrink Next Door.”

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The series hails from director Michael Showalter (“The Big Sick,” “The Lovebirds”), writer Georgia Pritchett (“Succession,” “Veep”), but perhaps most importantly stars the lead trio of Will Ferrell, Paul Rudd, and Kathryn Hahn (“WandaVision,” “Mrs.

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December is a weird time for television. While the way that TV is released throughout the year these days means that there are fewer ebbs and flows in overall content quality (not to mention quantity), it still feels as if December has less going on in comparison to other months in the year. Maybe that’s just because, in comparison, film is continuing its lightning-quick clip or, perhaps, networks are savvy enough to know that people are looking for an easy, digestible binge this time of year.

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It’s an alarming trend as of late. Men and women—incarcerated for years upon years—are being set free after discovering they’ve been doing someone else’s time in prison. To say such a realization is both infuriating and soul-crushing is an understatement. It also calls into question the legal system as a whole. Are all parts doing their due diligence in seeing that an accused individual is truly innocent until proven guilty? A question like this and circumstances like these form the backbone of the upcoming Apple TV+ series “Truth Be Told.”

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Created and written by Nichelle Tramble Spellman (“The Good Wife” & “Justified”), the show is based on “Are You Sleeping: A Novel” by Kathleen Barber.

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