Netflix is expanding its original lineup with content from another TV giant, Deadline reports. The Law & Order creator Dick Wolf’s (Chicago P.D., FBI) true-crime docuseries Homicide: New York will premiere on the streaming service on March 20th. Homicide: Los Angeles will come out later this year. There are five episodes in each of the two installments.
Through the eyes of the detectives and prosecutors who solved the most infamous murder cases in the city, Homicide, from Wolf Entertainment and Dan Cutforth (Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, Katy Perry: Part Of Me) and Jane Lipsitz’s (Lindsey Stirling: Brave Enough, Air Guitar Nation) Alfred Street Industries, tells their stories.
The project took form before Wolf’s current deal with Universal Studio Gro
Homicide is executive produced by Wolf, Lipsitz, Cutforth, Nan Strait (Top Chef, Project Runway), Dan Volpe (Blow Deck, Top Chef Masters), Adam Kassen (Away, Lift), and Tom Thayer (Hitchcock, The Andromeda Strain). Thayer oversaw Wolf Entertainment’s non-scripted division and played a key role in bringing the project together.
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With nine active series across three franchises—the Chicago and Law & Order franchises on NBC and the FBI dramas on CBS—Wolf is the epitome of the broadcast procedural.
Deadline reports that Wolf Entertainment has collaborated with Universal Television Alternative Studio on a number of unscripted series, such as NBC’s LA Fire & Rescue, Oxygen’s Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler, and Oxygen and CNBC’s Blood & Money.
With a number of docuseries, including Prosecuting Evil, Cold Justice, Criminal Confessions, and Murder for Hire on Oxygen and BTK: Confessions of a Serial Killer on A&E, the company has a long history in the true crime genre.
In addition, Wolf has produced two other documentaries with Wolf Entertainment’s Peter Jankowski (Law & Order: Organized Crime, FBI: Most Wanted): The Doors: When You’re Strange, which won a Grammy, and Twin Towers, which won an Oscar.