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Showtime takes Polanski doc

US cablenet Showtime has picked up a feature-doc on film director Roman Polanski and the sex crime allegations made against him.

Marina Zenovich’s film Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out is the follow up to her Emmy-winning 2008 doc Wanted And Desired.

The first film focused on Polanski’s sexual abuse trial in 1977 in which he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a minor but fled to Europe before sentencing.

The sequel, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival earlier this year, focuses on his surprise arrest in Switzerland in 2009. The Swiss authorities arrested Polanski at the request of the US but then refused to extradite him and released him instead.

Zenovich is also working on Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic, a profile of the late comedian, for Showtime and the BBC’s Storyville strand.

Both projects will premiere in 2013.

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