Sundance TV extends True Crime Story franchise with two new series, renewal

True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here from Bungalow Media

Sundance TV, the US pay network owned by AMC Networks, is expanding its True Crime Story franchise with a pair of newly greenlit documentary series and the renewal of True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here.

True Crime Story: Citizen Detective, produced by Drag Race prodco World of Wonder, follows amateur sleuths who have become obsessed with solving certain crimes. The series is exec produced by Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, Josh Bingham and Tom Campbell.

The other greenlit series, True Crime Story: Crimes of Entitlement, examines the consequences of when people with lots to lose and little to gain resort to criminal behaviour. Produced by Sidestilt Films, the project is exec produced by Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel.

Bungalow Media’s It Couldn’t Happen Here was renewed for a six-episode second season. Hosted by US actress Hilarie Burton Morgan (One Tree Hill, The Walking Dead), the show looks at how major crimes impact tight-knit American communities and shed light on previously adjudicated cases where doubt about the existing verdict lingers.

Another title in the franchise, Look Into My Eyes, will debut on June 15. The four-part limited series, produced by Blumhouse Television and Anchor Entertainment, investigates the story of Dr George Kenney and his fall from grace after 10 years as a beloved principal at North Port High School in Florida where he practised hypnosis on students.

In recent years, Sundance TV has expanded its true crime offering with limited series including The Preppy Murder: Death in Central Park, No One Saw a Thing and Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle.