NEW YORK (AP) — James Patterson is launching a true crime series on the streaming service Fox Nation. “Unsolved With James Patterson,” hosted by the million-selling author, premieres Monday and […]
Investigation Discovery is getting into the topical space with a dark twist. The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned cable network is launching Crimefeed, a weekly, topical true-crime show hosted by Nancy Grace. Crimefeed will debut at 11 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11. Nine episodes have been ordered.
The CW, which is under new ownership following Nexstar’s acquisition last year, is developing its own true-crime strand. Heather Olander, head of unscripted programming at The CW, said Tuesday that the network is currently working on its own version of NBC’s Dateline, CBS’s 48 Hours and ABC’s 20/20. “What’s nice about true crime is it also can be scaled, you can do a lot of episodes, and it’s very efficient,” she said.
The genre has seen a boom in the streaming age, but even the most respectful offerings are overshadowed by the most exploitative.
Exclusives
Tegna Inc. today announced a multi-year partnership with Law&Crime Productions, a production company founded by Dan Abrams, and Cineflix Rights, the UK’s largest independent TV content distributor, to co-produce original docuseries leveraging Tegna stations’ library […]
Cable and broadcast network audiences can’t seem to get enough of true crime all the time. For programmers, crime pays like no other genre; they are offering more homicides than ever — real murders, not those conjured by Hollywood scriptwriters. The documentary accounts of husbands slaying wives, strangers killing for sex or money, and people on drugs committing murder for more drugs have become a staple of weekly network television through series like 48 Hours Mysteries on CBS on Saturday nights and Dateline on NBC on Friday nights.
