FBI TRUE’s Craig Turk and Anne Beagan on Highlighting Real-Life Agents in a New Way

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CBS is highlighting crime-solving in a different way this fall with FBI TRUE, a docuseries that highlights real cases—and the agents who worked on them.

The series comes from Craig Turk (who co-created CBS’ FBI franchise) and Anne Beagan (an FBI agent-turned-special advisor, who has worked on FBI and FBI: MOST WANTED), who also worked on the FBI-centric 2021 documentary 26TH STREET GARAGE.

“We feel really lucky to tell these stories,” Turk tells Give Me My Remote. “We’re working with really amazing women and men [on FBI TRUE]. A lot of these stories, like the Boston Marathon bombing—which I thought was an incredible moment in American history, and I thought I knew everything about it…until we got to making this episode. And then you realize, wow, there’s a whole throughline to the story that you didn’t know. And I’ve loved learning [about things]; even cases that I thought I knew really well, I realized I didn’t.” 

“And then there are other cases that once you become aware of them, you think, ‘Oh my gosh, how is this not front page headlines? How have there not been books and movies about this?’” he continues. “And so for me working on the show has felt like a real privilege.”

“Some of the stories that we’re telling have been in the mainstream media and people think they know the story,” adds Beagan. “But because we’re choosing to tell it from a different perspective or through the lens of someone who’s never been interviewed before about their role in the case, it really is eye-opening and it’s giving you a fresh look at something that you thought you knew about.”

Here, Turk and Beagan share insight into the show, how it varies from Paramount+ to CBS, how its success is leading to more cases to spotlight, and more. Read more