Sky Italia Launches ‘Overlooked Serial Killer’ Docuseries Following Hit Podcast About Case Connecting Italy and U.K. (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Sky Italia is launching a high-profile documentary series with international ambitions titled “The Overlooked Serial Killer,” reconstructing a true-crime case that has gripped millions of Italians.
The documentary investigates the connection between Elisa Claps, an Italian teenager who disappeared in 1993, and Heather Barnett, a British woman whose mutilated body was found in Bournemouth in 2002. “The Overlooked Serial Killer” docuseries segues from a recently launched podcast about the case titled “Dove Nessuno Guarda –– Il Caso Claps” that has become Italy’s top podcast on Spotify.
The show, which will launch on Sky in Italy later this year — and is likely to play on the Comcast-owned pay-TV operator in the U.K. — is being pitched to international buyers at the Rome MIA market.
This podcast-plus-docuseries production, made by Sky’s Italian news unit SkyTG24 in tandem with Italy’s fast-growing Chora Media podcast company, is the first of its kind for Sky Italia. “We are no longer just a TV channel.
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