Prime Video UK Pre-Buys True Crime Docs On Notorious British Killers, Drug Kingpins & Mysterious Disappearances
10.01.2024 - 10:59
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EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video‘s UK arm has pre-bought a suite of true crime docs about some of Britain’s most notorious crimes. The deals with London-based distributor Abacus Media Rights also include acquisitions of two completed series.
On the pre-buy front, the Amazon streamer has taken Woodcut Media double Murder in a Tea Cup and Murder at First Swipe, Peninsula Television’s Scissor Sisters, Big Little Fish’s Breaking Dad: The Richard Lubbock Story (working title) and Future Studios’ Lucie Blackman: Missing in Tokyo.
The acquisitions are Peninsula three-part shows The Heiress and the Heist and Confession of a Crime Boss.
Prime Video has tapped Amcomri Entertainment-owned Abacus for true crime docs several times over recent years, including for originals on Ian Brady, the murder of Meredith Kercher and Patrick Mackay.
From the new programs, Murder in a Tea Cup looks into one of the most intriguing and bizarre British cases of the 20th Century – the serial murders of poisoner Graham Young. It follows his stranger-than-fiction story from the warning signs in his early years, to his much-disputed death in prison decades later.
Murder at First Swipe looks at Stephen Port, who approached his victims on dating apps before drugging and raping them, then dumping their bodies on the street. It features exclusive interviews from his friends and lovers, and unseen correspondence from Port himself, who became known as the ‘Grindr Killer,’ that allowed him to murder. Both 90-minute docs are from Woodcut Media.
Two-part series Scissor Sisters follows two young women, Charlotte and Linda Mulhall, who stabbed and beat to death their mother’s boyfriend before descending further into depravity by mutilating Farah Swaleh Noor’s body and