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  • HBO Original Limited Series C.B. STRIKE: THE INK BLACK HEART Debuts January 23
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    HBO Original Limited Series C.B. STRIKE: THE INK BLACK HEART Debuts January 23

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    • The four-episode HBO Original limited series C.B. STRIKE: THE INK BLACK HEART debuts THURSDAY, JANUARY 23 at 9:00 PM ET/PT on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. This is the sixth story of the crime drama in co-production with BBC and based on J.K. Rowling’s best-selling crime novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. 
       
    • Logline: Strike and Robin are hired to investigate a murder involving a creator of a cult TV cartoon and an anonymous online troll known as “Anomie.” With a complex web of online aliases, business interests and family conflicts to navigate, our heroic pair find themselves in a case that stretches them to their limit with the threat of this mysterious killer around every corner.
       
    • Cast: Tom Burke, Holliday Grainger, David Westhead, Christian McKay, Emma Fielding, Tupele Dorgu, James Nelson-Joyce, Ruth Sheen, Jack Greenlees, Natasha O’Keeffe, and Caitlin Innes Edwards. 
       
    • Credits: C.B. STRIKE: THE INK BLACK HEART is adapted for the screen by writer and executive producer Tom Edge; directed by Sue Tully; executive produced by J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts alongside the BBC’s Nick Lambon.

    (Source: Warner Bros. Discovery)