Abacus Media Rights (AMR), an Amcomri Entertainment Company, has pre-sold multiple true crime documentaries to Prime Video in the UK.
From award-winning production companies Woodcut Media, Peninsula Television, Big Little Fish and Future Studios, the Prime Video deal includes a number of shocking, true-crime titles including Murder in a Tea Cup; Murder at First Swipe; Scissor Sisters; Breaking Dad: The Richard Lubbock Story (w/t) and Lucie Blackman: Missing in Tokyo. In addition, acquisitions of completed series from Peninsula Television include The Heiress and the Heist and Confessions of a Crime Boss.
Jonathan Ford, Managing Director, AMR who brokered the deal comments, “We are extremely pleased to announce this agreement with Prime Video. Viewers in the UK are fascinated by true crime series which continue to attract significant audiences. Our on-going relationships with many of the leading producers of this genre enables us to have some fantastic titles available for pre-buy.”
Murder in a Tea Cup (1 x 90’) Woodcut Media
This highly stylised documentary shines a long overdue light on one of the most intriguing and bizarre British cases of the Twentieth Century – the serial murders of poisoner Graham Young. We follow his stranger than fiction story from the warning signs in his early years, to his much-disputed death in prison decades (and multiple murders) later.
Murder at First Swipe (1 x 90’) Woodcut Media
Stephen Port approached his victims on dating apps before drugging and raping them, then dumping their lifeless bodies on the street. Featuring exclusive interviews from his friends and lovers, and unseen correspondence from Port himself, this new feature documentary explores the web of lies spread by the Grindr Killer, that allowed him to murder.
Scissor Sisters (2 x one hour) Peninsula Television
That two young women could stab and beat to death their mother’s boyfriend is appalling enough. But Charlotte and Linda Mulhall sank to extreme levels of depravity when they mutilated Farah Swaleh Noor’s body and then dumped his chopped-up remains in Dublin’s Royal Canal. This horrific story revolves around the events which led to the murder of a man who it was subsequently discovered was a predatory and violent rapist, resulting in one of the most intensive police hunts in Irish history.
Breaking Dad: The Richard Lubbock Story (w/t) (2 x one hour) Big Little Fish
How Richard Lubbock, a mild-mannered, north London, Jewish family-man became Britain’s biggest meth dealer is now revealed for the first time in these two gripping one-hour films. Inspired by his son James’s memoir Breaking Dad, this stranger than fiction story recounts a cautionary tale as Richard risks everything to swap his comfortable life for one of crime at a time when one of the most addictive drugs on the planet was making its way into the beating heartland of the London club scene. This is the story of the most unlikely character who contributed to the rise of meth in Britain in the early 2000s, and how the police managed to eventually catch him. At times shocking, often unbelievable, but all 100% true.
Lucie Blackman: Missing in Tokyo (2 x one hour) Future Studios
Lucie Blackman – a tall, blond, twenty-one-year-old – stepped out into the vastness of the Tokyo night in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her remains were found buried in a seaside cave. Lucie’s story starts in the quiet, leafy town of Sevenoaks and races through the seedy underbelly of a Tokyo’s nightclub district where she had been working as a ‘hostess’. It is laced with mysterious cults, conmen, bizarre rituals, and ends with the revelation of an unspeakable crime by one of the world’s most prolific sex offenders.
The Heiress and the Heist (3 x one hour) Peninsula Television
This is the story of the 1974 Russborough House heist and how a gang led by Rose Dugdale, a former debutante from London’s high society, stole £8 million worth of paintings. Their demands? To free the Price sisters who were facing a prison sentence for the 1973 car-bombing attacks and were being force-fed while on hunger strike.
Confessions of a Crime Boss (3 x one hour) Peninsula Television
Confessions of a Crime Boss reveals the rampant gangland crime of late 20th century Ireland, and the power and influence held by the gangs who controlled the drugs trade during this turbulent time. Former crime boss John Gilligan discusses his infamous stint in the Irish underworld, including his trial for the murder of crime journalist Veronica Guerin.
