Crimes Against Nature (2026)

SERIES PREMIERE TWO BEST FRIENDS. A MAN AND HIS APE AGAINST THE WORLD. A famous Hollywood Animal Trainer, Doctor Kermit Groeden, and his only client/best friend—Amigo the Ape, the first gorilla ever nominated for an Academy Award—are framed for a crime they didn’t commit. Now they’re on the run. And to clear their names and save their lives, Kermit and Amigo will be forced to reveal their darkest secrets and confront each other’s hidden past. Will their friendship be able to survive? A story about secrets, sins, and simians. ??Koko the Gorilla meets The Usual Suspects and Pineapple Express in this Hollywood neo-noir buddy crime comedy.

CAN A GORILLA KILL IN SELF-DEFENSE? Find out as we meet the journalist trying to peel back the story of how Kermit and Amigo went from fame to fugitives as a mysterious big game poacher hunts them in secret and L.A.P.D.’s Detective Aldo investigation into the two friends takes a wild turn.

STORIES OF SURVIVAL Reporter Joy Beckhart convinces Kermit and Amigo to let her interview their celebrity captive, Laurel Helms. Meanwhile, the Poacher closes in, and Detective Aldo has follow-up questions for the eccentric billionaire Jason Scott Trent, whose wife Kermit and Amigo are accused of murdering.