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.
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