The true-crime docuseries Homicide: New York, starring Dick Wolf of Law & Order, will premiere on Netflix on March 20. Next up is Homicide: Los Angeles.
Another TV giant’s possession is being added by Netflix to its library of original programming. Dick Wolf, the creator of Law & Order, will launch his true-crime docuseries Homicide: New York on the streaming service on March 20. Later this year, Homicide: Los Angeles will come after it. Each of the two volumes has five episodes.
Homicide, from Wolf Entertainment and Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz’s Alfred Street Industries, follows the detectives and prosecutors who unraveled some of the most well-known murder cases in the city.
The project was in development before Wolf’s current enormous deal with Universal Studio Group (struck in 2020 and extended through 2027 in 2023), which also includes an unscripted/documentary series first-look pact with Universal Television Alternative Studio.
Homicide is executive produced by Wolf, Lipsitz, Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe, Adam Kassen, and Tom Thayer, who oversaw Wolf Entertainment’s non-scripted division and had a key role in bringing the project together.
Along with the impending Prime Video half-hour drama On Call, this is Wolf Entertainment’s first series for Netflix, first streaming docuseries, and second streaming series overall.
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.
In terms of unscripted television, Wolf Entertainment has collaborated with Universal Television Alternative Studio on several shows, such as NBC’s LA Fire & Rescue, Oxygen’s Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler, and CNBC’s Blood & Money.
With several docuseries, including Prosecuting Evil, Cold Justice, Criminal Confessions, Murder for Hire on Oxygen, and BTK: Confessions of a Serial Killer on A&E, the firm has a long history in the true crime genre.
Two scripted drama podcasts from Wolf Entertainment are available: Hunted and Dark Woods. Universal Television is developing the latter into a scripted series.
In addition, Wolf co-produced the Grammy and Oscar-winning documentaries The Doors: When You’re Strange and Twin Towers, a short documentary created by Wolf Entertainment’s Peter Jankowski.
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