Peacock has announced its True Crime Tuesday slate including originals Perfect World: A Deadly Game, Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run With Warren Jeffs, and Sins of the Amish.
The series kicks off on March 8 with Perfect World, a two-part docuseries that takes viewers inside the world of gaming as a group of friends are alerted to what appears to be a real-life murder. The group is on the hunt for the next 18 hours in search of the real identity and location of one of their closest friends who claims he killed his family to put an end to his killing spree.
The series is executive produced by Zak Weisfeld, Libby Richman, and Alex Weresow; co-executive produced by Elizabeth Gibson and Adam Linkenhelt and produced by Lusid Media.
Preaching Evil—premiering in the spring— tells the story of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs through the lens of his favorite wife Naomi Jessop.
The series kicks off on March 8 with Perfect World, a two-part docuseries that takes viewers inside the world of gaming as a group of friends are alerted to what appears to be a real-life murder. The group is on the hunt for the next 18 hours in search of the real identity and location of one of their closest friends who claims he killed his family to put an end to his killing spree.
The series is executive produced by Zak Weisfeld, Libby Richman, and Alex Weresow; co-executive produced by Elizabeth Gibson and Adam Linkenhelt and produced by Lusid Media.
Preaching Evil—premiering in the spring— tells the story of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs through the lens of his favorite wife Naomi Jessop.
- 2/23/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Charles Booker, the Democratic Senate candidate who narrowly lost to former Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath in a close race in Kentucky, is set to have his campaign documented by American Relapse and Bernie Blackout director Pat McGee.
Booker’s campaign was gaining steam right up until he lost to McGrath by a narrow margin this week.
McGee has been embedded with the Booker campaign since the Kentucky House of Representatives member handed him access during the past few weeks.
Booker, who was running on a platform of universal health care, a Green New Deal to tackle climate change, systemic criminal justice reform and universal basic income, only started his campaign in January and was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon.
His campaign bounce to win the right to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky came during the Covid-19 crisis,...
Booker’s campaign was gaining steam right up until he lost to McGrath by a narrow margin this week.
McGee has been embedded with the Booker campaign since the Kentucky House of Representatives member handed him access during the past few weeks.
Booker, who was running on a platform of universal health care, a Green New Deal to tackle climate change, systemic criminal justice reform and universal basic income, only started his campaign in January and was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Oscar winner Susan Sarandon.
His campaign bounce to win the right to take on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky came during the Covid-19 crisis,...
- 7/2/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Vice TV is expanding its programming slate with two new documentaries in its Vice Versa strand and a pair of renewals.
The youth media broadcaster has ordered docs about the dark side of Nike’s iconic Air Jordan sneakers and the role the media played into Bernie Sanders’ exit from the 2020 Presidential Campaign.
Both films form part of the company’s Vice Versa strand, which kicked off earlier this year with ITN Productions’ hour-long special Meghan Markle Escaping The Crown.
One Man and His Shoes, which airs on May 25 at 8pm, is a two-hour film that takes a deep dive into the social, cultural, and racial significance of the Air Jordan sneaker. It will explore the marketing that built a multi-billion-dollar business and the dark side of greed and teen murder that ownership of the sneakers spawned. Using a mix of archival footage and graphic animation, the film features...
The youth media broadcaster has ordered docs about the dark side of Nike’s iconic Air Jordan sneakers and the role the media played into Bernie Sanders’ exit from the 2020 Presidential Campaign.
Both films form part of the company’s Vice Versa strand, which kicked off earlier this year with ITN Productions’ hour-long special Meghan Markle Escaping The Crown.
One Man and His Shoes, which airs on May 25 at 8pm, is a two-hour film that takes a deep dive into the social, cultural, and racial significance of the Air Jordan sneaker. It will explore the marketing that built a multi-billion-dollar business and the dark side of greed and teen murder that ownership of the sneakers spawned. Using a mix of archival footage and graphic animation, the film features...
- 5/6/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
As if it weren’t difficult enough to survive their drug habits — as well as lives on the streets — addicts in Delray Beach, Fla. must also contend with a predatory healthcare industry that views them as a source of continued profit. That’s the argument made by “American Relapse,” directors Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt’s illuminating documentary about two recovering addicts, Frankie Holmes and Allie Severino, striving to get desperate men and women the help they need. As both a primer on the Sunshine State’s insurance paradigm and a snapshot of narcotics dependency, it boasts an urgency that, post-theatrical release, should help it score a small-screen audience.
A companion piece to McGee and Linkenhelt’s Viceland series “Dopesick Nation,” which similarly focuses on Frankie and Allie, albeit in more in-depth fashion, “American Relapse” is most eye-opening in its explanation of the scams that drive the treatment business in Delray Beach,...
A companion piece to McGee and Linkenhelt’s Viceland series “Dopesick Nation,” which similarly focuses on Frankie and Allie, albeit in more in-depth fashion, “American Relapse” is most eye-opening in its explanation of the scams that drive the treatment business in Delray Beach,...
- 3/28/2019
- by Nick Schager
- Variety Film + TV
Viceland has ordered 10 episodes of American Junkie, a topical docu-reality series about the country’s opioid crisis, a spinoff of indie feature documentary American Relapse, from filmmaker Pat McGee and Jenny Daly’s T Group Productions. American Junkie is set to premiere September 12 at 10 Pm on Viceland.
In South Florida, which has become Ground Zero in America’s current drug crisis, addicts from all over the country arrive daily looking to get clean but instead find one the nation’s fastest growing and profitable industries: rehab.
American Junkie follows two recovering addicts, Allie and Frank, who devote their lives to helping fellow addicts in their life-and-death struggle for recovery, rescuing them from the streets and helping them avoid the countless corrupt rehab facilities and sober houses where greed trumps treatment and Millennial addicts have become cash commodities. You can watch the trailer below.
“At Viceland, we make shows that immerse...
In South Florida, which has become Ground Zero in America’s current drug crisis, addicts from all over the country arrive daily looking to get clean but instead find one the nation’s fastest growing and profitable industries: rehab.
American Junkie follows two recovering addicts, Allie and Frank, who devote their lives to helping fellow addicts in their life-and-death struggle for recovery, rescuing them from the streets and helping them avoid the countless corrupt rehab facilities and sober houses where greed trumps treatment and Millennial addicts have become cash commodities. You can watch the trailer below.
“At Viceland, we make shows that immerse...
- 8/2/2018
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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