What would happen if a robot gained sentience but then tried to hide the fact that it had deeper feelings? Back in 2017, with her provocative novella, All Systems Red, author Martha Wells launched the phenomenon of The Murderbot Diaries and never looked back. As of 2023, The Murderbot Diaries spans seven books and three short stories. And now, that killer book series is joining the Apple TV+ science fiction empire as a new TV series, debuting on May 16.

As revealed by Apple TV+ in an official press release, the series adapting The Murderbot Diaries will just be called Murderbot and will star Alexander Skarsgård as the eponymous robot who gains feelings that it wants to hide.

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James Bond feels like one of the last great film franchises. The eponymous hero may have appeared in different guises and faced all manner of strange villains, but at the core he’s still the same agent on Her Majesty’s Secret Service that appeared on the silver screen back in 1962.

However, that just changed forever with a behind-the-scenes deal that may shift the vision of the Bond franchise entirely — and not necessarily for the better. It may be unprecedented for Bond, but it places the series directly in line with its competitors.