Riz Ahmed acted in an American miniseries based on a British television series.
Riz Ahmed . He also starred in the HBO miniseries The Night Of as Nasir Khan ; the show and his performance were critically lauded , earning him Golden Globe and SAG nominations . Show Me a Hero is a 2015 American miniseries based on the 1999 nonfiction book of the same name by former New York Times writer , Lisa Belkin As in the book , the miniseries details a white middle-class neighborhood 's resistance to a federally mandated scattered-site public housing development in Yonkers , New York , and how these tensions affected the city as a whole . War and Remembrance is an American miniseries based on the novel of the same name written by Herman Wouk , which aired from November 13 , 1988 to May 14 , 1989 .