All articles tagged with #docuseries
Peacock has greenlit a three-part docuseries, Clap If You Care: The Wendy Williams Show (working title), set to air in 2027. Williams isn’t involved, but longtime executive producer Susanne Bass will executive produce the project, with EverWonder Studio and additional EPs; over 20 former staffers will share behind-the-scenes memories, celebrating the show’s cultural impact while exploring the costs of fame.
Episode 3 of Apple TV’s The Dynasty: UConn Huskies centers on Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd as they navigate Geno Auriemma’s demanding coaching during the 2024-25 season, reveal their private relationship, and show how their support for each other helped UConn rebound from a Tennessee loss to win the Big East title and the national championship, with both players going on to be top picks in the WNBA draft.
Jimmy Fallon opens The Tonight Show with a single joke about Amazon’s upcoming Melania docuseries, a follow-up to the earlier film that critics panned; his quip plays on the First Lady’s low public profile and Trump’s infamous line that he rarely sees Melania, while the piece notes the fall release and ongoing media fascination with the subject.
Amazon Prime is preparing a fall docuseries about Melania Trump, promising new insights into her private life and philanthropic work, following the critical and commercial disappointment of the earlier Melania documentary.
Defensive tackle Aaron Donald is laying the groundwork for a long-term media and entertainment career, hiring Envisionary’s Jon Rosen to grow his brand and develop a docuseries, after serving as an NBC pregame analyst and amid a potential return from a two-year playing hiatus that could shape whether he plays again or pivots fully to media.
Netflix’s three-part The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare revisits the 2022 Moscow killings with never-before-seen footage and family interviews to center four victims, examine miscommunications between police and the university, explore Kohberger’s early interest in serial killers, and map the ongoing legal saga—from Kohberger’s 2025 guilty plea and life sentences to his bid to overturn the deal.
Slate's Scaachi Koul reviews Netflix's three‑part Idaho Murders: College Nightmare as a capable explainer that weighs the victims' stories and Kohberger's evolving plea but ultimately leaves the central question—why these murders happened—unresolved, framing the show as a poignant but unsatisfying reminder that true‑crime often offers emotion over definitive answers.
Netflix’s The Idaho Murders docuseries explores a theory that Kohberger’s obsession with crime—developed during his criminology studies—could have been his motive, though prosecutors say motive remains unknown; Kohberger pled guilty in 2025 to four murders and is serving four life terms, while he has proclaimed innocence from prison; the piece also notes his troubled interactions with women and past academic focus, including incel speculation, but finds no definitive reason behind the killings.
Netflix almost pulled Michael Jackson: The Verdict a week before its June 3 release amid fears of a lawsuit from the Jackson estate and fan backlash; the three-part docuseries, which reexamines the 2005 trial, premiered as planned and topped Netflix charts, with security precautions and no major publicity as controversy swirled.
National Geographic’s three-part Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston blends documentary interviews, drama and time-travel–style storytelling to reexamine Pompeii’s final hours. Hiddleston moves between present-day ruins and a staged 79 A.D. Pompeii, exploring survival and humanity with archaeologists and experts, in a format aimed at attracting younger viewers. The series premieres July 22 on NatGeo, with a July 23 Disney+/Hulu streaming release.
A three‑part Prime Video docuseries follows Elizabethton High School sociology teacher Alex Campbell and his students as they revisit the Redhead Murders of 1984–85, using FOIA requests, interviews, and careful analysis to humanize the victims and rethink why the case went cold. The show blends education with true‑crime storytelling and earns a STREAM IT verdict.
Tyra Banks has filed a defamation suit against Netflix, the docuseries' directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan, and EverWonder Studio over Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model, arguing that producers edited roughly 16 minutes of her three-and-a-half-hour interview to create a false narrative; she also cites breach of contract and false endorsement. Banks says she wasn’t given access to the doc before it aired and was denied unedited footage to correct inaccuracies. Netflix says the docuseries aimed to tell an honest story and that Banks’s perspective was considered; Banks seeks damages and a jury trial.
Netflix’s Michael Jackson: The Verdict revisits the singer’s 2005 trial through archival footage, juror and insider interviews, and news-era clips to show how media frenzy and public narratives—rooted in earlier allegations and settlements—shaped the case. It argues the real story is society’s fixation on fame and the public’s readiness to embrace a narrative, rather than a clear verdict, with the lasting takeaway that the only true innocents may have been the children involved.
Shannon and Eric Evangelista spent 11 years filming a four-hour Investigation Discovery docuseries about Benjaman Kyle (who is actually William Powell), an amnesiac whose memory wipe spans 1983–2004 and hints at a violent past. The film uncovers Kyle’s possible knowledge of his real identity, threats faced by the filmmakers from secretive crime elements, and a dramatic confrontation in a long-since-ongoing hunt for the truth. A second season looks likely as they push for more tips, and the program is now streaming on HBO Max after airing as a two-night ID event.
Netflix released the trailer and set a June 3, 2026 premiere for Michael Jackson: The Verdict, a three-part docuseries told by courtroom insiders—jurors, reporters, and attorneys—exploring Michael Jackson’s 2003 trial and his complex legacy in 50-minute episodes directed by Nick Green and produced by showrunner David Herman, Fiona Stourton, and James Goldston.