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Truth Be Told - based on the Kathleen Barber novel Are You Sleeping (2017) - touches on the public's renewed fascination with true-crime cases.
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LOS ANGELES - The popularity of true-crime shows and podcasts has convinced millions of people they are armchair detectives. But Truth Be Told, an Apple TV+ drama debuting on Dec 6, has podcaster Poppy Parnell - played by Oscar winner Octavia Spencer - reconsidering the guilt of Warren Cave (Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul), the man she helped send to jail for murder. At a recent press day in Los Angeles, Spencer, Paul and the show's creator Nichelle Tramble Spellman tell The Straits Times they want viewers to question their own obsession with true crime.
