Apple and Richard Plelper’s EDEN Productions are teaming up once again to turn investigative podcast Hot Money: The New Narcos into an Apple TV show. Here are the details.
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Deadline reports that Apple is in the early development stages of an Apple TV series based on Hot Money: The New Narcos, an investigative podcast co-hosted by Miles Johnson, of the Financial Times.
The eight-episode podcast premiered in late 2023, and told the story of a cocaine “super cartel” that operated like a multinational corporation. Here’s the podcast’s original description:
“A middle-aged electrician is murdered in a quiet Amsterdam suburb. The case leads to a web of drugs, money laundering and state-sponsored assassinations that stretches from Dublin to Dubai. At the center is a cocaine super cartel that is revolutionising the global drugs market. Financial Times investigative reporter Miles Johnson exposes the ever-fuzzier line between criminals and legitimate business people and between governments and gangsters.”
The podcast was investigated and co-hosted by Johnson, who will also serve as an executive producer on the new show, alongside the Financial Times and audio production studio Pushkin.
For now, there’s no timeline for when the show will premiere.
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