New Apple TV+ 'Home Before Dark' trailer shows why this show could be huge

By Oliver Haslam
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Home Before Dark
Home Before Dark (Image credit: Apple TV+)

What you need to know

  • The first "Home Before Dark" trailer is here.
  • The show is based on the story of a 9-year-old reporter.
  • It lands on Apple TV in April.

Apple TV+ has just shared the first official trailer for "Home Before Dark" to its YouTube channel. And if it's in any way indicative of what we can expect when the series drops next month, it's going to be great.

The trailer gives us a feel for the story of a child who fancies herself as a reporter, just like her dad. But there's more to it than that, with a cold case in a small town needing to be solved.

A mystery inspired by the reporting of a real nine-year-old journalist. When a young girl and her family move back to the small town her father left behind, her pursuit of the truth leads to the unearthing of a long-buried cold case.

The series is created and executive produced by Jon M. Chu and showrunners Dana Fox & Dara Resnik; written and executive produced by Russel Friend & Garrett Lerner; and executive produced by Steve Golin for Anonymous Content, Joy Gorman Wettels, Rosemary Rodriguez and Sharlene Martin.

This looks right up my street and I'm very much looking forward to taking it in. The show will have some way to go if it's going to unseat "Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet" from its throne as my top Apple TV+ show, though.

The show will be available on Apple TV+ come April 3. You'll need to be a subscriber in order to watch, but the constant stream of new and original content makes the $4.99 per month absolutely worth the outlay.

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Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.