AMC Networks’ SundanceTV has launched its first true crime franchise – the aptly titled True Crime Story – and commissioned two shows under the new banner. Produced by Bungalow Media + Entertainment, It Couldn’t Happen Here is hosted by actor and author Hilarie Burton Morgan (One Tree Hill, The Walking Dead), who visits different small towns […]
Canadian streamer Crave, TV4 in Sweden and Discovery in Italy are among those to have snagged rights to Framing Britney Spears, the FX and Hulu doc that debuted earlier this month. The 1 x 75-minute doc, which is produced by The New York Times and Red Arrow Studios-owned Left/Right, was directed by Samantha Stark and premiered […]
BBC adds Bates Motel & Steve McQueen docs The BBC in the UK has ordered two new documentaries that originated from director Steve McQueen while he was working on the Small Axe anthology. Black Power, which is being produced for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer, is described as “a searing account of the Black Power movement” […]
This new, premium eight-part documentary collection is the latest production from the team behind the Emmy award-winning 30-minute series The Weekly, which saw journalists at The New York Times collaborate with US producers Left/Right, a Red Arrow Studios company, to shine a light on some of those big signature stories that no-one else is telling. […]
AMC Networks is preparing to ramp up its true crime offering by signing talent deals with a quartet of creatives. The US outfit has struck partnerships with Mona Chalabi (The Fix, Vagina Dispatches), Naomi Ekperigin (Broad City, Couples Therapy), Cameron Esposito (Queery, Take My Wife) and Jena Friedman (The Daily Show, Soft Focus) as it […]
Doubts have emerged over the future of Love Is Blind and Deep State producer Red Arrow Studio (RAS), after creative chief Nina Etspueler became the latest senior executive to step down from the ProSiebenSat.1-owned firm. Etspueler had been group creative director at Red Arrow for 18 months, having been promoted in February 2019 following the […]
US network FX and Disney-owned streaming service Hulu have partnered with The New York Times for a new 10-part documentary series featuring reports from journalists at the newspaper. The New York Times Presents is being described as a follow-up to The Weekly, the previous collaboration between FX and the paper. It comes from the same […]
All3Media’s pursuit to acquire Red Arrow Studios is understood to be back on course after ProSiebenSat.1 paused the sales process of its global production and distribution division late last year. The German company triggered a strategic review of Red Arrow in September, prompting a number of companies including Sony Pictures Television, AMC and All3 to […]
US cabler Epix is preparing to air a six-episode docuseries based on hit podcast Slow Burn, which explores the Watergate crisis. The show, which will also be known as Slow Burn, expands on the podcast’s first season and follows Leon Neyfakh’s investigation into the Watergate crisis, exploring the subplots and forgotten characters involved in the […]
US cablenet History is preparing to air a new two-hour documentary that takes viewers aboard Air Force One during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. 9/11: Inside Air Force One features interviews with then president George W. Bush, vice president Dick Cheney, chief of staff Andy Card and the pilot of Air Force One […]
