Apple’s rumored experiment to use its content offering to cross-promote its services now includes two new non-fiction series titled The line.
The first is a six-part podcast series that premieres today, featuring three episodes currently available from this writing. The podcast is presented and executive produced by Dan Taberski and will investigate the controversial acquittal of Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who arrested in 2018 after it was alleged that he had committed war crimes over the cruel murder of an ISIS prisoner, including alleged crimes, including posing with a photograph of a corpse.
In 2019, he is controversially acquitted on all charges except one charge for having contracted the corpse, a development that generated recoil of the Navy SEALs that Gallagher submitted.
Both the podcast and documentary sessions, which begin this fall as a four-part limited series on Apple TV +, will look at “the complex reality of the fight against a decade-long war, which removes the layers surrounding Gallagher’s alleged crimes,” Apple said in a statement. Press release. Both series are produced by Jigsaw Productions. The series features interviews with Gallagher and his wife, as well as 50 current and former special options.
That Apple is offering this dual format that actually cross-promotes its services is no surprise. Bloomberg report last year, Apple in part did a major podcast push to promote its Apple TV + originals. And that’s probably wise, given Apple TV +’s slow start outside the gate – in part because of the limited number of titles available at launch.
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Look up the first three episodes of the audio series Apple Podcasts.