Apple TV+ is turning yet another bestselling book into a streaming series, much like it's done in the past with shows such as and "The Essex Serpent."

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1182513/city-on-fire-release-date-cast-and-more-for-the-streaming-adaptation-of-the-acclaimed-novel/

Dr Sarah Perry, whose 2016 novel was adapted for screen in the eponymous Apple TV series The Essex Serpent, starring Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes, hails from the county.

Source: https://www.peeblesshirenews.com/news/national/23660408.essex-serpent-author-named-new-chancellor-university-essex/?ref=rss

The Essex County town was where the couple raised their three sons, Michael, Isaiah and John Wesley.

Source: https://njmonthly.com/articles/news/new-jersey-celebrity-deaths-2023/

The Essex ships served at the end of the war in the Pacific starting in 1944, at a time when scads of Japanese menaced American vessels.

Source: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/essex-class-might-be-us-navys-best-aircraft-carrier-ever-208143