David E. Kelley is heading into nature, teaming with Norcross Productions to launch Live Migrations, a global live nature series that connects audiences with the world’s great animal migrations.

The series kicks off today, Wednesday, August 18, with its inaugural production, The Great Sockeye Migration, a live, multi-camera journey into the heart of the world’s greatest wild salmon run in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

The livestream, which you can view at livemigrations.com and YouTube.com, will allow audiences worldwide to witness the sockeyes’ extraordinary return from the Pacific Ocean to the rivers and streams where they were born, according to the series’ official description. “With extended, unhurried views and the natural sounds of the landscape, The Great Sockeye Migration offers a radically different kind of television: one that invites viewers to pause, observe and experience a major natural event as it unfolds in real time.”

The inaugural livestream is set in the Bristol Bay watershed, home to the most abundant wild sockeye salmon runs remaining on Earth. The production will follow the salmon through a landscape that has sustained Alaska Native peoples and communities for generations, and allows the story to unfold at the pace of the animals themselves, per the description.

Each livestream will combine real-time observation with educational and cultural context, helping viewers understand the animals, ecosystems and human communities connected to these journeys.

“Live Migrations allows you to slow down and connect with nature and this extraordinary species,” said Kelley. “If people could only sit by a river and feel the salmon… watching a live migration is the next best thing.”

Future Live Migrations productions are planned around the journeys of sandhill cranes, whales, wildebeest and monarch butterflies.

“Live Migrations grew out of a simple idea: What if television, a medium built to capture our attention, could also return it?” said Live Migrations creator and Norcross Productions founder Tucker Malarkey. “These animals are undertaking ancient, perilous journeys all around us. By slowing down and watching together, we begin to understand what is at stake—and why these migrations must endure.”

Live Migrations also acknowledges that it is filming on the ancestral and living lands and waters of the Alaska Native peoples of Bristol Bay, and “offers its deep respect to their communities, cultures and enduring traditions, and its gratitude for their stewardship of this extraordinary place and its wild salmon across generations.”

“We are not the owners of these stories,” Malarkey said. “We are their temporary stewards. Our hope is to create a place where people can return—to watch the migrations happening now and feel connected to the living world in real time.”

Journalist Ross Barkan apologized Wednesday for failing to properly cite other journalists’ work in his New York Magazine columns, days after the magazine dropped him following an independent review that found attribution problems in 67 of his columns.

“None of them, genuinely, were willful or intentional,” Barkan said in a statement posted to X. “In the course of writing many columns a week, I did not use citations as aggressively as I should have and did not paraphrase well enough.” He added that he “never intended to crib from anyone’s work” and apologized to journalists whose work he did not properly cite. Barkan said he would “take some time away” and pledged to “do a much better job going forward.”

More to come…

AMC+ has slotted Friday, October 2 for the premiere of Kill Jackie, its upcoming revenge thriller series starring and executive produced by Catherine Zeta-Jones. The streamer also released new key art, which you can see below.

Kill Jackie is based on Sunday Times bestselling author Nick Harkaway’s (writing as Aidan Truhen) novel The Price You Pay. Zeta-Jones stars as Jackie Price, who has been living a luxurious existence for the last twenty years – travelling the world, selling fine art and, above all, trying to stay anonymous after escaping a dangerous past as an international drug smuggler. But just as life starts to feel a little boring, it takes a sudden lethal turn when she discovers that The Seven Demons, a squad of the world’s most terrifying hitmen, have been hired to kill her. Assuming someone from her past is behind it, Jackie unleashes her old instincts and embarks on a wild, dangerous game plan: to take down The Demons one by one before they kill her. However, she soon realizes her own demons are much more terrifying than the ruthless killers on her trail…and her buried secrets lead her closer to home, with surprising consequences.

Cast also includes Daniel Ings (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Gentlemen), Sidse Babett Knudsen (Prime Target, Borgen), Óscar Jaenada (Rambo V, Cantinflas), Hattie Hook (Of An Age, Ten Pound Poms), Darci Shaw (A Thousand Blows, This City is Ours), Raff Law (Masters of The Air, Triton), Enzo Cilenti (Black Mirror, The Crown), Christine Adams (Hijack, Malice), Julian Rhind-Tutt (Britannia, Napoleon), Karlis Arnolds Avots (Soviet Jeans, Lovable), Set Sjöstrand (The Wheel of Time, Valhalla), Tadashi Ito (Society of the Snow, The Platform 2), Sebastian Armesto (Gangs of London, A Small Light), Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh, The Great), Gavin Spokes (House of The Dragon, Slow Horses), Jonathan Cake (And Just Like That, Camping), Bamshad Abedi-Amin (A Town Called Malice, The Last Kingdom), Bill Paterson (Fleabag, Criminal Justice) and Ron Perlman (Hellboy).

New episodes will drop weekly.

Co-created by Conor Keane, Tom Butterworth (Gangs of London), Peter Lawson (John Wick) and Damon Thomas (Killing Eve), Kill Jackie is co-produced by Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures. Lawson and Jose Agustin Valdes executive produce for Steel Springs Pictures, along with Butterworth, Damon Thomas, Zeta-Jones with Rebecca Dundon, Dante Di Loreto and Jeffrey Levine. Damon Thomas is lead director with writer and showrunner Butterworth. Keane co-wrote the TV adaptation and is associate producer. Nick Harkaway serves as executive consultant.

Kill Jackie will be available exclusively on AMC+ in the U.S. on October 2.