ABC News will pay tribute to legendary journalist Barbara Walters in two specials over this holiday weekend – Our Barbara: A Special Edition of 20/20 on ABC and The View Honors Barbara Walters on ABC News Live.
12.12.2022 - 20:25 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: ABC News Studios is ramping up its slate of true-crime docuseries for Hulu with new projects from the likes of Colin Kaepernick and The Way Down’s Nile Cappello.
The streamer will launch three new docuseries from the fledgling production division that was launched last year with plans for 100 hours of programming this year.
Three new titles that will air in January are: Killing County, Death in the Dorms and Web of Death.
Death in the Dorms, which launches on January 5, tells the true stories of six college students whose lives tragically ended in murder: UCLA’s Andrea DelVesco, University of Florida’s Christian Aguilar, University of Virginia’s Yeardley Love, Baruch College’s Michael Deng, University of South Carolina’s Samantha Josephson, and Western Kentucky University’s Katie Autry.
Each episode will focus on the life of one bright young student, diving into their lost potential, their loved ones’ grief, and the fight to bring their killers to justice through interviews with family, friends and law enforcement. You can watch the trailer below.
It comes from ABC News Studios in association with The Intellectual Property Corporation, the Sony-backed company behind Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, and Yes, Like The River, the company founded by The Way Down exec producer Nile Cappello.
ABC News Studios’ Carrie Cook is executive producer, and David Sloan is senior executive producer with Cappello, Eli Holzman, Myles Reiff and Aaron Saidman also exec producing.
Web of Death, which launches on January 19, is a six-part series that follows the investigations of online sleuths as they use digital footprints, DNA databases and the power of social media to solve gruesome, mysterious and bizarre murder
ABC News will pay tribute to legendary journalist Barbara Walters in two specials over this holiday weekend – Our Barbara: A Special Edition of 20/20 on ABC and The View Honors Barbara Walters on ABC News Live.
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