The Night Of : The Beach is a 2016 English-language Drama Crime series created by Richard Price and Steven Zaillian directed by Steven Zaillian and James Marsh and produced by Mark A. Baker and Scott Ferguson under the banner of BBC Worldwide Productions in collaboration with Bad Wolf and Film Rites. airing on HBO. A straight-laced Pakistani-American student is off to a must-attend party on a Friday night. His only available transportation being his father's taxi cab, he sets off into Manhattan. But his party-going plans are quickly forgotten when a mysterious young woman jumps aboard in need of a ride. Charmed by her intense intrigue and good looks, the young man gets swept up by her pressures. After a mind-altering night of drugs and passion, the woman is dead, and the young man finds himself in the cross hairs of a gruesome murder investigation, panicked and shaken, but possibly with a trace of doubt as to his own innocence. Written by copperheadache. The night of : the beach features John Turturro, Riz Ahmed, Bill Camp, Payman Maadi, Poorna Jagannathan, Sofia Black-d'elia and Glenn Fleshler. The show is based on Criminal Justice by Peter Moffat. The music was composed by Jeff Russo. Cinematography was done by Robert Elswit and Igor Martinovi and editing by Jay Cassidy and Nick Houy. The series has a running time of 56-96 minutes for each episode. The show has a total of 8 episodes.