HBO’s four-part documentary series The Case Against Adnan Syed will expand to five parts following the release of Syed from prison. HBO confirmed production is now underway on a follow-up episode which will include exclusive footage with Adnan Syed leading up to and following his release.
The original docuseries director Amy Berg (an Oscar nominee for Deliver Us from Evil) returns to helm the new episode which is targeting a 2023 premiere.
Berg, who’s been working on the fifth episode since early 2021, was in Baltimore City Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn’s courtroom when the motion to vacate Syed’s murder conviction was announced. Details revealed in the four-part docuseries were used as evidence in support of the ruling.
“We knew the end of The Case Against Adnan Syed was not the end of this story, and we’ve been closely following every twist and turn in the case since the series premiered in March 2019. It’s gratifying to see many of the questions and issues probed in the original episodes come to bear on the events of this week,” stated Berg.
Adnan Syed’s case gained national attention when it was the subject of the “Serial” podcast. The podcast laid out the case against Syed along with the events leading up to his conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee, an 18-year-old high school student and his ex-girlfriend.
Henrietta Conrad, Jemima Khan, and Rabia Chaudry are executive producing. The docuseries is a Working Title TV, Instinct Productions, and HBO Documentary Films in association with Sky production.
