The Night Of

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

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

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.