C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart to Debut on HBO and Max
HBO has announced that the four-episode Original limited series C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart will debut on Thursday, January 23 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. The series will premiere on HBO and will be available to stream on Max.
C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart 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.

In the new installment, Strike and Robin are hired to investigate a murder involving the 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.

The cast includes 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.
C.B. Strike: The Ink Black Heart was adapted for the screen by writer and executive producer Tom Edge. It was directed by Sue Tully, and the executive producers include J.K. Rowling, Neil Blair, and Ruth Kenley-Letts alongside the BBC‘s Nick Lambon.




