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Netflix is adding content from another TV titan to its roster of originals. Homicide: New York, a true-crime docuseries from Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, is set to debut on the streamer on March 20. It will be followed by Homicide: Los Angeles later this year. Both installments consist of five episodes each.
Homicide, from Wolf Entertainment and Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz’s Alfred Street Industries, tells the stories of a city’s most notorious murder cases by following the detectives and prosecutors who cracked them.
The project predates Wolf’s current massive deal with UnHere is a iversal Television (signed in 2020 and extended in 2023 through 2027), which includes a first-look agreement with Universal Television Alternative Studio for unscripted/docu-series.
Homicide is executive produced by Wolf, Tom Thayer, the head of the non-scripted arm of Wolf Entertainment who was instrumental in getting the project together, Lipsitz, Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe and Adam Kassen.
Here is a trailer for Homicide: New York. You can see first-look images below.
This marks Wolf Entertainment’s first series for Netflix, the company’s first streaming docuseries and second streaming series overall, joining the upcoming Amazon Freevee half-hour drama On Call.
Wolf is the king of broadcast procedurals with nine current series spanning three franchises, the Chicago and Law & Order franchises on NBC and the FBI dramas on CBS.
On the unscripted side, Wolf Entertainment has done several series with Universal Television Alternative Studio, including CNBC and Oxygen’s Blood & Money, Oxygen’s Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler and NBC’s LA Fire & Rescue.
The company has strong tradition in true crime with a slew of docuseries, including Prosecuting Evil, Cold Justice, Criminal Confessions and Murder for Hire on Oxygen and BTK: Confessions of a Serial Killer on A&E.
Wolf Entertainment has released two scripted drama podcasts, Hunted and Dark Woods; the latter is being developed as a scripted series with Universal Television.
Additionally, Wolf’s credits also include Oscar-winning short documentary Twin Towers and Grammy-winning documentary The Doors: When You’re Strange, both of which he produced with Wolf Entertainment’s Peter Jankowski.
Here are first-look images from Homicide: New York:
(L to R) Barbara Butcher, Scott Wagner, John Vergona, and Bill McNeely in Homicide: New York
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Homicide: New York
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Brian MacLeod in Homicide: New York
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Rob Mooney in Homicide: New York
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Barbara Butcher in Homicide: New York
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Homicide: New York
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Irma Rivera in Homicide: New York
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