Wagatha Christie, Vogue, Keanu Reeves Formula 1 & Asif Kapadia Docs On Disney+ UK Slate — Edinburgh TV Festival

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Disney+ has commissioned a doc on the sensational ‘Wagatha Christie’ legal case, another on fashion magazine Vogue and a Keanu Reeves-voiced Formula 1 series as part of its UK slate.In total, the streamer’s Director of Unscripted Content, EMEA Sean Doyle has commissioned five unscripted series, which will premiere on Disney+ in EMEA and Asia Pacific and Star+ in Latin America.

Full details of the slate can be found below.“Our aim was to find brilliant once-in-a-lifetime stories that showcase a wide range of subjects; and these latest projects truly deliver on that promise,” said Doyle. “We’re working with our elite creative partners on this slate, reflecting the UK’s status as an unscripted powerhouse and establishing Disney+ as a destination for unscripted titles.”Disney+ plans to create 60 local productions by 2024 as it seeks to up its global subscriber base.Toplining today’s orders, Wagatha Christie (working title) will recall the libel case that pitted Coleen Rooney against Rebekah Vardy, both of whom are married to major England football stars.Told through exclusive access Rooney, who successfully defended herself against a high profile defamation case that Vardy brought against her related to alleged leaking of stories to the tabloid press.

Her infamous Instagram post in October 2019, in which she outlined how she had conducted a sting on Vardy by planting false stories on social media, had initially triggered the spat and earned her the moniker ‘Wagatha Christie.’The three-part series comes from Lorton Entertainment, which previously made a doc about Coleen’s husband Wayne Rooney, is producing in association with Dorothy Street Pictures.Also on the slate is Brawn: The One Pound Formula 1 Team (working title), a