{"id":1282,"date":"2026-10-09T10:20:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1282"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:20:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:20:46","slug":"elizabeth-banks-to-star-in-karen-read-series-for-prime-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/?p=1282","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Banks to star in Karen Read series for Prime Video"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A photo of Elizabeth Banks. (Amazon MGM Studios)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Elizabeth Banks is set to star in a new series about Karen Read.<\/p>\n

Prime Video has given a series order to a currently untitled drama series inspired by the Law&Crime and Audible Original podcast Karen<\/em>. Banks will star as Read and also executive produce the show from showrunner, executive producer and writer Justin Noble.<\/p>\n

The show follows what happens when a Boston police officer is found dead in the snow in the middle of a blizzard.<\/p>\n

“All eyes are on his girlfriend, Karen Read. But when she and her legal team claim she’s not only innocent, but that she’s the victim of a conspiracy protecting the real assailants, the story spreads like wildfire, dividing a community in ways they’ve never seen,” according to its official synopsis. “As endless suspicion mounts, in multiple directions, this genre-bending true crime series explores society’s explosive obsession with true crime.”<\/p>\n

The new series will span eight hourlong episodes.<\/p>\n

Banks said in a press release that she grew up in Massachusetts, where she “watched this case divide families, friends, and entire towns.”<\/p>\n

“We have spent years with this material because the questions it raises go far beyond one courtroom: why we choose the stories we believe, and what happens when trust in our institutions breaks down. Justin has written a series that respects and treats with care the complexity of what happened and the public reaction to it,” Banks continued.<\/p>\n

Noble said Read’s story has more twists and turns than any other story he has consumed, whether it be real or fictional.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes M. Night Shyamalan look like Nora Ephron. But the reason this story resonates and must be told is because of the profound takeaways it leaves us with: about a deeply imperfect justice system that urgently needs change, about the mistreatment of women by those who weaponize and abuse their power, and about a victim who deserves to be remembered,” Noble said.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photo of Elizabeth Banks. (Amazon MGM Studios) Elizabeth Banks is set to star in a new series about Karen Read. Prime Video has given a series order to a currently untitled drama series inspired by the Law&Crime and Audible Original podcast Karen. Banks will star as Read and also executive produce the show from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcfj570am.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}