Why 'Wonder Woman' director Patty Jenkins returned to TV for the L.A. noir 'I Am the Night'

LOS ANGELES - "Some stories you can't tell," one reporter grimly warns another over drinks in an early scene of the TNT series "I Am the Night," debuting Jan. 28. "Some stories will eat you alive."

It's the kind of hard-boiled dialogue that helped establish a tradition of L.A. noir that includes Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy. As envisioned by "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins, this miniseries continues that legacy with a compelling new angle on the grisly unsolved 1949 killing of a woman who became known as the Black Dahlia.

"This [story] really rocked me," says Jenkins, who directed all six episodes of "I Am the Night" before starting work on the blockbuster superhero sequel-in-waiting,