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Watch the Apple TV+ trailer for Lady in the Lake, a film adaptation of the 2019 novel of the same name by Laura Lipmann, directed by Alma Har’el and starring Natalie Portman and Moses Ingram. The thriller mystery takes place in 1960s Baltimore and revolves around two women connected by a mysterious death.

In this Apple TV+ series adaptation of Colin O’Sullivan’s 2018 novel, originally titled The Dark Manual, an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is gifted a robot to help console her after her husband and son vanish in a plane crash. Written and executive produced by Katie Robbins, the series stars Rashida Jones, Hidetoshi Nishijima, and Joanna Sotomura.

This short video previews the Apple TV+ series adaptation of Blake Crouch’s best-selling science fiction novel, Dark Matter (Ballantine Books, 2016). Crouch, who serves as executive producer, showrunner, and writer, explains the premise of this thriller involving parallel universes alongside actors Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly.

Take a first look at the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus, starring Brie Larson and Lewis Pullman. The series follows a chemist in the 1960s, whose life takes an unexpected turn when she finds herself a single mother and the reluctant star of a beloved cooking show.

“You don’t see...but you will.” Watch the trailer for The Changeling, a chilling eight-part Apple TV+ series based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Victor LaValle. Written and adapted by Kelly Marcel and directed by Melina Matsoukas, the series stars LaKeith Stanfield, Clark Backo, Adina Porter, Samuel T. Herring, Alexis Louder, and Jared Abrahamson.

Watch the trailer for The Big Door Prize, an Apple TV+ series adapted from the 2020 novel of the same name by M. O. Walsh starring Chris O’Dowd, Gabrielle Dennis, and Djouliet Amara. The series follows the citizens of a small town who discover a machine in a grocery store that predicts their destinies.

The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey is a television series adaptation of the 2010 novel of the same name by Walter Mosley. With a screenplay written by Mosley, the Apple TV+ miniseries stars Samuel L. Jackson as a man struggling with dementia who receives a treatment to regain his memory, helping him uncover mysteries from his family’s past.

Based on the best-selling historical novel by Min Jin Lee, Pachinko is an eight-episode series that follows a Korean immigrant family across four generations. The highly anticipated Apple TV+ series stars Yuh-Jung Youn, Lee Minho, Jin Ha, and Minha Kim and will be told in three languages—Korean, Japanese, and English.

“Was it real? Or was it my imagination?” Lisey’s Story is an eight-part Apple TV Plus miniseries based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Stephen King. Directed by Pablo Larraín, the series stars Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

The Mosquito Coast is a new Apple TV Plus television series based on the 1981 best-selling novel of the same name by Paul Theroux. The seven-episode series stars Justin Theroux as Allie Fox, a radical idealist and inventor who uproots his family to Mexico when they find themselves on the run from the U.S. government.

“I wanted to continue to participate in that tradition of hope-making in every single poem that I wrote,” says Amanda Gorman about frequently listening to Maya Angelou’s inaugural poem “On the Pulse of Morning” in this conversation with Oprah Winfrey for Apple TV Plus.

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve already seen everything that’s gonna happen. And it’s a nightmare.” Watch the trailer for Cherry, a film adaptation of Nico Walker’s 2018 debut novel of the same name, starring Tom Holland as a young man who ends up robbing banks to support his drug addiction.

“The story is sprawling, the scope is sprawling. It unfolds over the course of a thousand years.” Executive producer and showrunner David Goyer introduces the trailer for the upcoming Apple TV Plus series Foundation, adapted from the award-winning science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov, which stars Laura Birn, Jared Harris, Leah Harvey, Lou Llobell, Terrence Mann, and Lee Pace.

Dickinson is the first web television series from Apple TV Plus, a period piece about Emily Dickinson with a modern and comedic twist starring Hailee Steinfeld. Created by Alena Smith, the cast includes Jane Krakowski as Mrs. Dickinson, Zosia Mamet as Louisa May Alcott, John Mulaney as Henry David Thoreau, and Wiz Khalifa as Death.