The Night Of

HBO originally passed on the pilot. HBO later picked up the series after James Gandolfini and Steven Zaillian agreed to make a mini-series instead of an open-ended series. Gandolfini died suddenly a month later.

Riz Ahmed is only 10 years younger than Peyman Moaadi and Poorna Jagannathan, who play his parents.

'The Night Of' is based on a British TV series that ran from 2008-09 called 'Criminal Justice'.