After success of OJ Simpson series, competitors focus on JonBenet Ramsey and Menendez brothers
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A popular television docudrama about the murder trial of O.J. Simpson has competitors cudgeling their brains for topics for similar projects about high-profile crimes from decades ago.
So far, two such projects have been announced in the wake of the success of the FX show The People v. O.J. Simpson. Law and Order’s Dick Wolf says that his franchise is also expanding into true crime. Wolf and NBC plan a series on brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were tried for murdering their parents in 1989, reports Vanity Fair. Unlike Simpson, they were convicted and are serving life prison terms.
“We’ve been talking with Dick about how to create an event series coming out of the Law & Order ripped-from-the-headlines brand,” president Jennifer Salke of NBC Entertainment said in a written statement.
Meanwhile, CBS is planning an as-yet-unscripted series about the unsolved killing of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old beauty pageant contestant who was found dead in her Colorado home in 1996.
Tom Forman of Limitless is talking with CBS about the series. It is expected to bring original investigators together with new experts to discuss the evidence in the case, reports Esquire magazine.
Hat tip: TV Guide
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