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On Wednesday, June 5, an Italian court upheld Amanda Knox‘s 2009 conviction of slander in which she falsely accused her former boss Patrick Lumumba of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher. Two days before her latest court trial, the 36-year-old took to X (formerly known as Twitter) to share that she would be defending herself once again.

Her post which was shared on June 3 read, “On June 5th, I will walk into the very same courtroom where I was reconvicted of a crime I didn’t commit, this time to defend myself yet again. I hope to clear my name once and for all of the false charges against me.” The retrial got Knox a three-year jail sentence which she will not serve because she already served 4 years following her wrongful conviction of Kercher’s murder.

NBC News reported that Knox’s attorney claimed to be “very surprised at the outcome of...

Welcome to the 251st episode of TV’s Top 5, The Hollywood Reporter’s TV podcast.

Every week, hosts Lesley Goldberg (West Coast TV editor) and Daniel Fienberg (chief TV critic) break down the latest TV news with context from the business and critical sides, welcome showrunners, executives and other guests, and provide a critical guide of what to watch (or skip, as the case may be).

Here’s how this week’s episode plays out:

1. Headlines

Upload, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Tracker, Young Sheldon, Amanda Knox, Tim Allen, Dick Wolf and The Brothers Sun highlight the week’s top TV industry headlines.

2. Netflix steps into the ring

The streaming giant, fresh off The Netflix Slam and The Netflix Cup, is stepping into the ring with Jake Paul and Mike Tyson for what its billing as a “boxing mega event.” This segment explores why the streamer continues to invest in...

It’s official: Hulu has ordered a limited series about Amanda Knox.

Margaret Qualley (Maid) will play Knox, who was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher. The limited series, which was first reported by Deadline in January, will cover her 16-year odyssey to set herself free.

The series will consist of eight, one-hour episodes.

The untitled project from 20th Television in association with The Littlefield Company is from Kj Steinberg (This Is Us), who will also serve as an executive producer. Qualley will EP along with Warren Littlefield, Lisa Harrison, Ann Johnson, & Graham Littlefield of The Littlefield Company; as well as Monica Lewinsky, Knox and Chris Robinson of Knox Robinson Productions.

The Knox series had been on priority-track development at Hulu for a while. Lewinsky, who also is known for her activism, teased it in an October appearance on Today about a PSA campaign on self-bullying.

Exclusive: Producer and director Seth Porges (Class Action Park) has signed with CAA for representation in all areas.

Porges is maybe best known for his work on the summer’s hit feature documentary Class Action Park, about a famously dangerous New Jersey amusement park, which debuted at No. 1 on HBO Max.

He has several projects in the works, including a collaboration with Soledad O’Brien Productions and a true-con documentary with producers Stephen Robert Morse (Amanda Knox) and Max Peltz of Lone Wolf Studios.

A journalist by trade, Porges is a regular commentator on cable news, and has appeared on History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic. He has also appeared as an expert in roughly 50 episodes of Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum and multiple seasons of Science’s What on Earth?

Previously, Porges was an editor at Popular Mechanics and Maxim magazines, and has contributed to dozens of publications,...

Amanda Knox had recently spoken out regarding Rudy Guede, the man that was convicted in 2007 of the killing of Meredith Kercher, Knox’s roommate while studying abroad in Italy. In an essay for Medium, along wit an episode of her podcast Labyrinths, Knox wrote that the “evidence of Guede’s guilt is overwhelming, as is the lack of evidence […]

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Fox Nation host Nancy Grace, her husband, mother and teenage twins have all tested postive for Covid-19 and are isolating at home.Grace’s 88-year-old mother was the initial positive test in the family on Monday. She is hospitalized in Georgia. On Wednesday, Grace, her husband, David Linch, and 13-year-old twins John David and Lucy Elizabeth also tested positive. It is unclear what, if any, contact they had with Grace’s mother.

The Daily Mail broke the news.

Former prosecutor Grace left her primetime show on CNN sister station Hln network in October after a dozen years. In November 2019, she joined Fox News’ streaming service, Fox Nation, to host Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, modeled after her Hln network show. Grace and her husband apparently have more severe cases of Covid-19 than their children, reporting the classic sign of losing their sense of smell and experiencing flu-like symptoms. Their children...

Amanda Knox is speaking out after Rudy Guede, the man who was convicted of the 2007 killing of her study abroad roommate Meredith Kercher in Italy, was released from prison.  In a blog post, which she also recorded as a bonus episode of her podcast Labyrinths, Knox stated that although the "evidence of Guede's guilt is overwhelming, as is the lack of evidence implicating any other suspect," he still has not "faced appropriate consequences" for his "horrific crime."  She pointed out that Guede, who was convicted of sexual assault and conspiracy to commit murder, was sentenced to just 16 years in prison, and was granted day release after 10 years....

The Flight Attendant served up an early (and free-on-YouTube!) landing ahead of its official Thanksgiving Day premiere on HBO Max. Does the dramedic thriller offer a first-class diversion?

Based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, the series follows Cassie Bowden (in a showstopping performance by The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco), a flight attendant for an international airline who takes full advantage of her exotic travel opportunities. Simultaneously a mess and in complete control of her life, Cassie sets off on a flight to Bangkok, Thailand, expecting to party it up before returning to...

Between the ongoing pandemic and the election, chances are you’ve missed out lately on some excellent offerings from podcast world. Luckily, it isn’t too late to binge some of the best new series and seasons of the fall, and even a few from the summer that might’ve slipped through the cracks. Whether you’re looking for narrative long-form or stand-alone episodic histories, fictional horror, or true crime, we’ve got something you’ll like. From a scientific discussion about the possibility of alien life to a journalistic investigation into a WWI-era murder,...

Amanda Knox will not be bullied by controversial media personality Piers Morgan.  On Wednesday, Nov. 4, Amanda went on Twitter to make a joke about the still-undeclared Presidential race between current Commander-in-Chief President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. With many on social media expressing fear and anxiety over the outcome, Amanda tweeted, "Whatever happens, the next four years can't be as bad as that four-year study abroad I did in Italy, right?" Amanda, an American and then college student, was wrongfully convicted of killing her British roommate Meredith Kercher in 2007 when the women were studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. She spent four years...

“The Vow” finale hinted at several big interviews gearing up for the second installment on HBO. Any additional details on what we can expect for season two will have to wait until 2021 (when next set of episodes is scheduled to drop). Until then, here’s an update on all the major players in the docuseries that exposes the practices of the self improvement organization and cult known as Nxivm. What’s next for Nxivm founder Keith Raniere, Nancy Salzman and whistleblowers Mark Vicente, Bonnie Piesse and Sarah Edmondson?

Do not read if you haven’t watched the season one finale of “The Vow” — spoilers ahead.

What do we know about the future? In September, filmmakers Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim revealed their plans to interview all parties involved in Nxivm to Variety “We reached out to everybody involved — many people, on all sides of the story — and we are continuing to film.

The latest buzzy Netflix documentary tells the story of Chris Watts who murdered his pregnant wife Shanann and their two daughters Celeste and Bella. In this doc we hear the 911 call from Shanann’s friend Nickole Atkinson the morning of her death and the police footage of the moments they arrived at the house to find a frantic Nickole and later a very cagey Chris Watts. We see the last text messages Shanann sent and the last moments her daughters were alive. And we see Chris Watts lying about Shanann and their kids’ disappearance mere hours after he had killed them all. It is tough.

Streaming services are packed to the rafters with murder documentaries, while true crime seems to be an ever increasing preoccupation. From the internet sleuths of Don’t F**k With Cats, questions about the American legal system in Making A Murderer to the shocking self-incrimination...

The following contains spoilers for every season of Search Party.

On December 17, 2017, the second season of TBS’s mystery comedy Search Party concluded with a full steam of momentum. Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) had just committed a murder to cover up an accidental murder from season 1, and then is promptly arrested (for the first murder that is). As Dory is ushered into the back of a squad car while still wearing a shapely red dress from the night’s festivities, the future looks pretty bleak for her. For the show, however, the future couldn’t have looked brighter.

Then that future of Search Party never arrived. At least not immediately.

Search Party was created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter. The show premiered on TBS in 2016 with a thrilling first season that depicted a quarter of Brooklyn millennials who decide to investigate the disappearance of one of their old acquaintances,...

Murder was the Case That They Gave Her: Demoustier Delivers a Chilly Courtroom Thriller

While it’s far from the first film to examine the popular, “how well can someone really know another person” rhetorical question, Stéphane Demoustier gets a lot of uncomfortable mileage out of such musings with his third feature The Girl with a Bracelet. Casting his sister, noted actress Anaïs Demoustier, as an unrelenting prosecutor, the result is an engrossing Gallic remake of Argentinean Gonzalo Tobal’s 2018 The Accused, which competed in the Venice Film Festival (and has yet to secure Us distribution). Not unlike the lurid elements which turned the Amanda Knox trial into a global media frenzy back in 2007, a surprising amount of jealousy and sexuality lurks beneath the façade of normalcy between two teen girls which makes for gripping melodrama in an oft-acrimonious courtroom drama.…...

In July of 2014, 18-year-old Conrad Roy III drove a pickup truck into the parking lot of a Kmart in the small town of Fairview, Massachusetts, filled the vehicle with toxic carbon monoxide and took his own life. He was one of 42,826 suicides in the United States that year.

What turned the incident from a private family tragedy into a media sensation were the circumstances around his suicide: On the day he died and for months beforehand Roy exchanged a cascade of disturbing text messages with his girlfriend, 17-year-old Michelle Carter.

“Conrad was somebody that was suicidally ideating for a good majority of his adolescence,” notes filmmaker Erin Lee Carr. “In the months leading up to his [suicide], instead of getting help, Michelle Carter was somebody that sort of pushed him to do it. And those events led to one of the most infamous Massachusetts cases the state had ever seen.”

Carr...

Exclusive: Exoneree and journalist Amanda Knox, in collaboration with novelist/journalist Christopher Robinson, has teamed with Kary Antholis’ Crime Story Media on Incarceration and Exoneration In A Time Of Pandemic, a new regular interview series set amid the coronavirus crisis.

The interview series explores stories from the criminal justice system told in the context of Covid-19. Each week, Crime Story will release at least one interview per week from Knox and Robinson on the CrimeStory.com website, as well as on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Simplecast, and other podcast platforms. A transcript of each interview also will be published on the CrimeStory.com website.

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Interview titles already...

Exclusive: Witchcraft Motion Picture Company is adding to its growing slate of films since launching last year. Rod Blackhurst (director of Netflix’s Amanda Knox)and Noah Lang of Witchcraft have acquired the rights to the thriller Empire of Dirt written by Noah Harald.

Blackhurst is attached to direct Harald’s script which follows “a female ex-soldier turned Emt who, certain of her son’s innocence in the wake of his overdose death, ventures deep into the underbelly of opioid country in relentless pursuit of truth and vengeance.”

“This is a film about motherhood, pain and strength set against the backdrop of a city ravaged by a drug epidemic where justice seemingly only comes at a premium,’’ said Blackhurst and Lang in a statement. “Noah Harald’s script about a middle aged woman of...

Amanda Knox is a married woman.  The 32-year-old wed Christopher Robinson on Saturday, February 29, E! News can confirm. Held at Elks Lodge in Burien, Washington, the festivities kicked off in the afternoon, with around 100 guests attending the low-key, Diy gathering.  "The groom and his friends spent the day setting up," a source tells E! News. "They brought in a beer keg, ice, popcorn, potato salad and chips. They also had a Pompeii Wood Fired Pizza oven in the back to make personal pizzas. There were gold, silver and white balloon arches set up and many people wore shiny gold costumes to go with the color theme." While some wore Renaissance and Medieval outfits,...

At a glance, everything is normal about Amanda Knox. The beloved pet cat, the coffee pics on Instagram, the bearded husband, the disappointment over Andrew Yang exiting the presidential race—all of it screams "young woman just doing her thing in Seattle!" A lot of what came before, of course, was as close to a nightmare as it gets, made all the worse because it was real life. Five years ago, Italy's highest court vacated once and for all Knox's conviction in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Kercher, a crime that resulted in Knox spending four years in an Italian prison, insisting throughout that she was innocent. Now 32, Knox has worked on setting her own...

Amanda Knox is taking something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue to heart. Ahead of her upcoming vows to fiancé Christopher Robinson, the criminal justice activist—she famously was wrongfully convicted then exonerated in the murder case of her roommate Meredith Kercher—took to Instagram to share how she's really prepping for the big day. Dressed in a black beanie and what appear to be gray sweats, the ex convict posed for a selfie in her neatly organized room. "40 days left until the wedding and 267 tasks left on the wedding To Do list," she wrote. "I've locked myself in the craftroom and I'm wearing my old prison uniform....

Peter Madsen.

Victorian writer/director Emma Sullivan’s feature documentary centred on the aftermath of the brutal murder of a Swedish journalist will premiere in the world cinema documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

Netflix commissioned Into the Deep from Danish producer Mette Heide, who hired Australian producer Roslyn Walker to work with her on the production. Heide produced Amanda Knox for Netflix, an account of the conviction of the American exchange student and eventual acquittal for the 2007 death of another student in Italy.

Sullivan began shadowing the Danish inventor and rocket engineer Peter Madsen in 2016 for a documentary on his workshop, the interns including physics graduates with whom he worked, and his attempt to become the first amateur astronaut in space.

The film took a shocking turn after Madsen was convicted last year of the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on board his submarine UC3 Nautilus. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Nancy Grace is joining Fox Nation, the network’s streaming service, with a crime show airing in January 2020.

The series will be similar to Grace’s eponymous show on Hln, which aired from 2005 to 2016, and follow Grace as she creates her podcast and SiriusXM radio show, “Crime Stories With Nancy Grace,” five days a week.

“We spotlight breaking crime and justice news, help find missing people, especially children, solve unsolved homicides and analyze clues left behind,” Grace told the Associated Press.

Grace is a former prosecutor who has since made her name on television as a political commentator. In 2005, she hosted the “Nancy Grace” primetime show on Hln (formerly CNN Headline News), where she covered high-profile criminal cases like the Casey Anthony and Amanda Knox trials. She also made a few cameos on shows like “Law & Order: Svu,” “Raising Hope,” and the film “Hancock.”

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Amanda Knox is all about the Facts. Lady Gaga  tweeted on Thursday, "Fame is prison." Knox, who famously spent four years in prison in Italy for the 2007 murder of her roommate before being acquitted, responded, "I hear you, but...prison is prison." Gaga, 33, has not responded. In 2007, Knox, now 32, and then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of murdering her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, during an alleged drunken sex assault. Kercher was found stabbed in their apartment n the Italian town of Perugia. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. She served four years. Following an appeal, both she and Sollecito were found not guilty of...

Amanda Knox is among almost 250 people who have signed an open letter to Governor Tony Evers supporting the petition for clemency for “Making a Murderer” subject Brendan Dassey.

“We write this letter to express our sincere hope that you will extend executive clemency, in the form of either a pardon or a commutation, to Brendan Dassey,” the letter, obtained by Fox 11 News and dated October 24, read. “Some of us are psychologists, including leading experts in the psychology of interrogations and confessions. Some of us are experts on juvenile justice; some of us are disability experts. Some of us are academics who study miscarriages of justice in Wisconsin and abroad. Some of us are exonerees who have ourselves been convicted of crimes we did not commit and who were later cleared by DNA evidence. Still others simply wish to lend our names and voices in support of Brendan.”

The letter continued:...

“Amanda Knox” producer Stephen Robert Morse is launching development of projects based on the book “Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty.”

Morse has teamed with veteran producer Max Peltz to option the rights to create both fiction and non-fiction projects based on Daniel Schulman’s 2014 book about David and Charles Koch, the owners of Koch Industries. Morse is producing through Observatory LLC and Peltz through Cavendish Pictures Ltd.

David Koch died on Aug. 23 at the age of 79. The Koch brothers have used their massive fortune to further their political interests, and are often credited with giving rise to the Tea Party movement and helping land Donald Trump the presidency.

Morse said, “This is the most definitive story of a true American dynasty, and with so many potent political issues at the forefront, it is as relevant today as ever before.”

Divergent...

Kary Antholis, who stepped down as President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming in June after more than 25 years at the company, has launched his new venture, Crime Story, a news and storytelling website dedicated to crime and justice stories. The site is a partnership with Talking Points Memo, which will feature Crime Story’s top articles on its home page.

The website will feature original reporting on headline-making and lesser known court cases, with a special section about Los Angeles crime stories; columns by contributors, starting with exoneree Amanda Knox with her co-writer Christopher Robinson; crime news aggregation; as well as an interview podcast by Antholis. It kicks off with conversations with United States Attorney General William Barr and Georgetown law professor and former Us Justice Department prosecutor Paul Butler.

Antholis, who is a lawyer by trade, has had a lifelong fascination with journalism, particularly in the areas of crime...

While her wedding is not for another six months, Amanda Knox is already a Mrs.  It was less than a year ago that the criminal justice activist, who was famously exonerated in the murder case of her roommate Meredith Kercher, announced her engagement to boyfriend Christopher Robinson following an elaborate science fiction-inspired proposal. While their wedding will take place in February 2020, it turns out they are already legally married.  According to their marriage license application and certificate obtained by E! News, the pair applied for a marriage certificate in King County in Knox's native Washington shortly after the proposal on Nov. 21, 2018. According to their marriage certificate,...

Exclusive: Witchcraft Motion Picture Company announced today that they have acquired the rights to the psychological horror She Came Back from screenwriter Emily Renee Bennett. Witchcraft’s Rod Blackhurst (Director of Netflix’s Amanda Knox) and Noah Lang will fast-track the feature as the first project optioned under the company’s new underrepresented writer mandate. Blackhurst is set to direct.

Described as if The Haunting Of Hill House took place at The Overlook Hotel, She Came Back is a film about a young woman haunted by the childhood murder of her young sister, and who, upon returning to her hometown, discovers that her sister might not be dead after all.

“She Came Back is a film about mental illness, addiction, guilt, and a strong and vulnerable woman’s struggle for identity,” said Blackhurst and Lang in a joint statement.

Nikki Battiste, a CBS Newspath correspondent whose coverage of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal helped uncover allegations against a Texas priest who was still in active ministry, has been named a CBS News correspondent.

She’ll be based in New York and report for all CBS News broadcasts and platforms including CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, CBS Sunday Morning and streaming service Cbsn.

Battiste joined CBS News in 2017 as a freelance correspondent for Newspath – CBS’ 24-hour newsgathering service – and was made a staff correspondent for Newspath in 2018. Working with the CBS News investigative unit, Battiste and her team uncovered allegations of sexual abuse against a priest in the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. After Battiste questioned Cardinal Daniel Dinardo about the allegations against the priest, the priest was removed from ministry. Battiste traveled to Rome last February to cover the Vatican summit addressing the abuse crisis.

Before joining CBS News,...

After eight years since her release from an Italian prison for a murder she did not commit, Amanda Knox is returning to Italy to speak at the Italy Innocence Project. Knox was wrongly convicted for the murder of her roommate, Meredith Kirshner. 50 Celebrities Who Died In 2018 – Tribute Slideshow Knox is scheduled to […]

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There’s a fortune at loose and Adam Sandler is on the case — in fiction and reality. A decade ago, “Murder Mystery,” a caffeinated comedy that stars Sandler and Jennifer Aniston as working class New Yorkers whose European vacation gets handcuffed to a $70 billion corpse, would have raked in a respectable haul at the box office. (The duo’s 2011 romp “Just Go With It” earned $215 million worldwide.) Today, the A-listers are cavorting on Netflix in a film that feels like a postcard from a past era. Turns out the small screen frames their caper flick just fine.

The multiplex may be in peril, but at least it’s faring better than tycoon Malcolm Quince (an imperious Terence Stamp) who saunters into the ballroom of his yacht to announce that he’s disinheriting all of his guests, and is promptly stabbed to death. The suspects could have all rolled in from a game of Clue.

Amanda Knox heads to Italy this weekend to “face her fears” where much of the population still think she’s guilty of murdering her roommate 12 years ago. Like Steve Bannon, Knox is another American export Italians can’t seem to keep out.

But the visit is a good time to remember how the online phenomenon of Amanda Knox was a portent of the Age of Trump, with its elevation and celebration of unreason, as the digital age linked and energized what most charitably could be called “suspicious minds.”

In 2007, Twitter was just coming online,...

Amanda Knox has returned to Italy for the first time since she was released from prison there in 2011, following an acquittal over the murder of her roommate. The 31-year-old criminal justice activist was photographed at Milan's Linate airport on Thursday. On Saturday, Knox is set to speak at a panel session titled "Trial by Media" at the Criminal Justice Festival in the city of Modena. The non-profit legal group the Italy Innocence Project organized the event, after flying from Dublin, CNN reported. Before embarking on her flight from Seattle, Knox posted on Instagram a photo of herself with her fiancé, author Christopher...

Amanda Knox will be returning to Italy for the first time since she served almost four years in prison after being wrongfully convicted with the murder of her then-roommate, Meredith Kercher. In June, Knox plans to speak at a conference in Modena hosted by the Criminal Chamber of the city and the Italy Innocence Project, […]

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Rod Blackhurst, best known for the Emmy-nominated Netflix doc Amanda Knox, is set to direct “southern-soaked” dramatic thriller Blood for Dust, coming from the Witchcraft Motion Picture Company, the new studio from Union Entertainment Group and Heart of Darkness Pictures. International Film Trust (Ift) is financing and repping international sales in Cannes.

Written by David Ebeltoft (Here Alone), Blood for Dust is set in the early 1990s and follows a traveling salesman drowning in the myth of the American dream who finds himself on a desperate mission after reconnecting with an old colleague.

Noah Haeussner will produce for Ueg/Heart of Darkness ...

Rod Blackhurst, best known for the Emmy-nominated Netflix doc Amanda Knox, is set to direct “southern-soaked” dramatic thriller Blood for Dust, coming from the Witchcraft Motion Picture Company, the new studio from Union Entertainment Group and Heart of Darkness Pictures. International Film Trust (Ift) is financing and repping international sales in Cannes.

Written by David Ebeltoft (Here Alone), Blood for Dust is set in the early 1990s and follows a traveling salesman drowning in the myth of the American dream who finds himself on a desperate mission after reconnecting with an old colleague.

Noah Haeussner will produce for Ueg/Heart of Darkness ...

Disney+ has launched its first non-fiction programming slate as well as an overall deal with Supper Club, the producers of Netflix’s Chef’s Table and Ava DuVernay’s 13th.

The streaming service has unveiled ten projects including two from David Gelb, Brian McGinn and Jason Sterman’s company, which was also behind Amanda Knox, Five Came Back and Jiro Dreams of Sushi. The news was unveiled as part of Disney’s investor day.

The trio are producing culture-focused Marvel’s 616 (w/t), created in collaboration with Marvel New Media, and wildlife conservation-themed Earthkeepers (w/t).

Marvel’s 616 is an anthological documentary series that explores the Marvel legacy and its intersection with the world. Told through the lens of a diverse group of filmmakers, each documentary will dive into rich historical, cultural and societal context that has become inseparable from stories of the Marvel Universe. It will be executive produced by Joe Quesada,...

Sometimes inspiration can strike in unexpected places. For writer and producer Danny Strong, watching a documentary about Amanda Knox proved to be the impetus that led to him co-creating (with David Elliot) the new Fox drama “Proven Innocent.”

“Watching the documentary on her case made me want to do something on wrongful conviction, because I was so enraged by it,” Strong tells Variety. “In these wrongful conviction cases the cops have no interest in them because the person’s been found guilty and is in prison; it’s closed. So wrongful conviction lawyers have to be their own investigators, and it can be very dangerous for them. And I thought, ‘Oh so it’s not just a straight legal show, it’s an investigation show, too’ and that just seemed really cool to me.”

“Proven Innocent” is centered on a woman named Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre) who works for a...

Amanda Knox is expanding her relationship with SundanceTV and Sundance Now, with her true crime podcast The Truth About True Crime with Amanda Knox, set to launch more episodes, parent AMC Networks announced Saturday at TCA.

The podcast launched last year to accompany true crime series Jonestown: Terror in the Jungle on SundanceTV.

Now Sundance TV and streaming service Sundance Now are preparing to roll out a new slate of true crime documentary series, and Knox’s podcast “will take a detailed look” at the crimes chronicled in the projects.

Knox, who is an executive producer on the podcast series with Christopher Robinson, says she’ll “bring nuance” to the stories told in the documentary series.

“After surviving my own true crime saga, I tend not to be a fan of the genre, because it so often veers into sensationalism at the expense of the human beings involved and the truth,...

Amanda Knox will host a true-crime podcast series, “The Truth About True Crime,” that will serve as a companion to SundanceTV’s upcoming documentaries, the network announced Saturday.

Knox will take a detailed look at the true crimes that are chronicled in the upcoming SundanceTV and Sundance Now documentary series “Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo,” “Killing for Love,” “The Preppie Murder: Death In Central Park” (working title) and “No One Saw A Thing.”

New episodes of “The Truth About True Crime” will premiere timed to each documentary.

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“Ministry of Evil,” which premieres on SundanceTV Wednesday, Feb. 27, chronicles the life and crimes of Tony Alamo, who, with his wife, Susan Alamo, became a born-again, fire-and-brimstone televangelist. The two launched The Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation in 1969, which soon evolved into a cult that...

American college student Amanda Knox was studying abroad in Italy 2007 when her roommate Meredeth Kercher was murdered. Knox and her then boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were accused of raping and killing Knox’s British roommate and the courts painted Knox as a violent, sexual deviant. A local burglar Rudy Guede was convicted in 2015 when DNA evidence tied him to […]...

Amblin Entertainment has picked up a new film project they will be producing called The White Room. I like that we are seeing Amblin pick up more and more film projects. They have quite the reputation to live up to, and I just hope the films they are currently developing end up living up to the brand name.

The White Room is “a female-driven thriller that takes place over the course of one night in the offseason of the remote Adirondack Mountains. The story unfolds when a mysterious young woman goes missing and it is up to a hardened local widow to find out the truth behind the disappearance, which may have been caused by something inhuman.”

The movie is described as being a mix of Don’t Breathe and Hereditary. The script for the film was written by Bryce McGuire, and Rod Blackhurst (Here Alone, Amanda Knox) is set to direct it.

Exclusive: Amblin Partners has preemptively acquired and put on a fast track The White Room. The pic has a script by hot genre scribe Bryce McGuire, and Rod Blackhurst will direct it. It was developed by The Picture Company and Ace Content and will be a co-production between those companies.

Evan Hayes will produce the film along with The Picture Co. partners Alex Heineman and Andrew Rona. Noah Lang will also serve as a producer. Ace’s founding partner Justin Barocas will also be executive producer.

The White Room is a female-driven thriller that takes place over the course of one night in the offseason of the remote Adirondack Mountains. The story unfolds when a mysterious young woman goes missing and it is up to a hardened local widow to find out the truth behind the disappearance, which may have been caused by something inhuman. The aspiration is Don’t Breathe meets Hereditary,...

Amanda Knox is on Instagram. There's nothing too exceptional about that, it's a pretty normal state of affairs. But the photographic evidence of Knox living a normal life is quietly remarkable when you remember that a decade ago she was in an Italian prison awaiting trial on murder charges. Overall she spent four years locked up, from being arrested in 2007, through being convicted of her roommate Meredith Kercher's murder in 2009 and until she was released on Oct. 3, 2011, her conviction overturned on appeal. The Seattle native was back in Washington by the following afternoon. She returned school and wrote a book about her experience, 2013's, Waiting to Be...

Amanda Knox has finally found her happily ever after.  The criminal justice activist, who rose to notoriety for her formerly alleged involvement in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, is engaged to her boyfriend, author Chris Robinson. 31-year-old Amanda announced the news on her social media Friday with a video of the elaborate, science fiction-inspired proposal.  "It was just your average Sunday night, when suddenly..." she captioned the moment, which captured how Robinson popped the question by leading Amanda into their backyard and presenting her with a meteor and futuristic tablet titled "the Knox-Robinson Coalescence." "I had been thinking about this, but...

Amanda Knox must really be into sci-fi ... 'cause her proposal had a definite theme, and a ton of production from her Bf-turned-fiancé. Spoiler alert: she said yes! Amanda posted video Friday of Christopher Robinson pulling off a proposal that included special effects. It starts with Amanda and Christopher heading outside after hearing a meteor strike in the backyard. Yeah, dude even busted out sound effects. You gotta see it ... smoke, lights, a fake crater and...

In today’s TV News Roundup, the new Fox thriller series “The Passage” and Freeform’s “The Fosters” spinoff “Good Trouble” will premiere in January.

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Amazon has released the trailer for its latest Prime Original series from India, “Mirzapur,” streaming exclusively on Prime Video starting Nov. 16. Following the story of two brothers, the nine-episode series involves the struggle between power, drugs, and violence.

James Purefoy (“Hap and Leonard,” “Altered Carbon”) joins Matthew Goode (“The Crown,” “Downton Abbey”) for season two of “The Wine Show,” the docu-series returning to Ovation TV Nov. 15 at 10 p.m. Est/ 7 p.m. Pst. From a beautiful French villa, Purefoy and Goode taste and tell the stories of some of the best wines in the world.

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“Good Trouble,” a spin-off of popular series “The Fosters,” will premiere Jan. 8 on Freeform,the network announced Tuesday. The series follows sisters Callie and Mariana as they...

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Truth is often stranger than fiction in these amazing documentary shows and features.

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

We love a good murder. In the last few years true crime telly has absolutely exploded with a raft of mindblowing doc series and TV movies. At the forefront of that is Making a Murderer, which has now got a second series on Netflix.

Addicted to true crime? Love the unravelling of a mystery, or the shocking details of a miscarriage of justice? Check out these amazing series available to watch now.

Amanda Knox

Available on: Netflix

Either Amanda Knox is a stone cold sociopath and a murderous liar, or, the documentary posits, she’s basically you. Aged twenty and studying in Italy Knox was accused of murdering her housemate Meredith Kercher as part of a sex game. Knox always maintained her innocence and...

Exclusive: Having reunited with Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll co-star Denis Leary for his USA Network pilot Erase earlier this summer, Elaine Hendrix is now joining Fox’s Proven Innocent.

The midseason replacement legal drama from Empire co-creator Danny Strong and writer David Elliot will feature Hendrix in the recurring role of Susan Andrews, I’ve learned. In a cast that includes Kelsey Grammer and Rachelle Lefevre, The Parent Trap alum’s character is a shameless self-promoting TV pundit who has the pull to sway public opinion with her proclamations of guilt or innocence.

Now, I’m not saying Nancy Grace, but you get the general idea that Strong and Elliot are aiming for here, right?

A somewhat fictionalized telling of the Amanda Knox saga, by Strong’s own admission at TCA last month, Proven Innocent sees Lefevre as a crusading lawyer leading a criminal defense team that seeks to free the wrongful convicted.

Kelsey Grammer was among the large ensemble cast of Fox’s Proven Innocent who came to TCA to discuss the button-pushing legal drama from Empire co-creator Danny Strong and writer David Elliott. It’s about a criminal defense firm that focuses on freeing the wrongly convicted, led by lawyer Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre) who had herself been wrongfully convicted, along with her brother, of murder when she was 18.

In June, Kelsey Grammer was cast as Gore Bellows, the prosecutor who initially put away Madeline and still believes in her guilt.

At TCA, Grammer described his Gore Bellows character as “a man of principle who has made mistakes.” But, the actor was quick to challenge the critics, saying there are two sides to this coin. “Is every person in jail innocent? If you go to jail every person [incarcerated there] will tell you so.”

He reminded the critics of his personal experience with...