re: The Case Against Adnan Syed - HBO-

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is this show just Serial but on HBO? Or is there supposed to be new details? Anyone know?

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So far the new information from the doc has been (From reddit):

1. They found no evidence that the police spoke with Jay prior to the official timeline.

Another theory championed on the internet was that Wilds had made contact with police earlier than the official record shows, the implication being that Wilds—who provided the most damaging testimony against Syed at trial—had either been coerced into giving false testimony or was lying to begin with. The seed of this idea lay in a memo from a private detective who had worked alongside Syed’s original defense lawyer showing that about a week before Jay’s first recorded police interview, he had skipped a shift at the pornography store where he was employed to meet with homicide detectives.

The source of this lead was the store’s manager, a woman referred to in the private eye’s notes as Sis. After months of interviewing the store’s former employees and digging through boxes of police records and zoning files, our team tracked down Sis and interviewed her at home. She did not remember Jay by name or by description. She also did not recall having a conversation with a private detective and emphasized that this is the kind of conversation she would remember—one about a murder investigation.

2. Don's timecards were not fabricated.

Many armchair detectives felt that Clinedinst should have been considered a prime suspect. The day she went missing, Lee had planned to meet up with Clinedinst, who was her co-worker at a LensCrafters store in Owings Mills, Maryland. But Clinedinst had an alibi for that day: He was working at a LensCrafters store in Hunt Valley, another Baltimore suburb, where his mother just happened to be the manager. The internet was ablaze with the idea that Clinedinst’s mother had doctored her son’s Hunt Valley timecard, creating what some saw as a phantom shift that put Clinedinst far from the scene of the crime.

After interviewing more than 15 current and former employees of LensCrafters, employees of Luxottica Group, LensCrafters’ parent, and even the developer who built the timekeeping software, we debunked the timecard theory. It was, we concluded, impossible to adjust the computerized timecard retroactively without leaving a trace.

3. The cops did not see Hae's car prior to Jay leading them to it.

By interviewing former law enforcement officers who used the National Crime Information Center database and pulling police dispatch logs from Harford County, however, we determined that the printout did not show where the car had been spotted. Instead, it was a search log showing when and where the police officers working on Lee’s missing-persons case had checked the NCIC database to see if her car had turned up somewhere else.

So, there's no reason to continue to view Don as a suspect (not that there ever was). There's also no reason to think the police fed Jay the location of Hae's car.

What's also interesting to me is that there is no discussion of the cell phone cover sheet disclaimer. That's a glaring omission. Maybe it will come up in the later episodes. But, if it's not raised, or it is raised without discussing the results of any investigation into it, it suggests to me one of two things: 1. They found evidence that would be damaging to positions taken during Adnan's (pending at the time documentary completed) IAC claim, 2. Willfull blindness on their part.