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Dick Wolf, the TV visionary behind such massive hits as “Law & Order” and the “Chicago” and “FBI” universes, is moving into the world of streaming. The half-hour police drama “On Call” will premiere all eight episodes on Jan. 9, 2025. It will be available to stream on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Prime Video’s upcoming series will mark Wolf Entertainment’s first-ever scripted streaming series. It will also mark Lori Loughlin first starring series role after her role in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.

“On Call” comes from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television. The series was co-created by Tim Walsh and Elliot Wolf (“Law & Order: Criminal Justice System”) and follows a rookie and veteran officer as they patrol Long Beach, California. The series will combine a mixture of bodycam, dash-camera and cellphone footage “to create a cinema verité effect,” a press release for the series reads.

The latest episode of “Fatal Attraction,” titled “Houston Homicide,” promises to be a gripping tale of mystery and tragedy. Set to air at 10:00 Pm on Monday, November 4, 2024, on TV One, this episode dives into the chilling events surrounding a young man’s untimely death during a weekend trip to Houston.

As the story unfolds, viewers will follow the dedicated police as they piece together the clues surrounding the murder. The investigation takes a turn when they discover that the victim had met a woman just days before his death. This chance encounter raises questions about the circumstances leading up to the crime. Did this meeting play a role in the tragedy?

With emotions running high and the stakes even higher, “Houston Homicide” explores the darker side of human connections. The episode is sure to keep audiences on the edge of their seats as they witness the relentless pursuit of...

Exclusive: After Homicide: Life on the Street landed on Peacock several weeks back, Fremantle has struck its first major deals for the remastered version of NBC’s iconic police series, while senior international exec Bob McCourt has teased a potential remake.

Israel’s Yes and Canada’s Bell Media have picked up Homicide, with more deals close, we understand. Starring Andre Braugher, Yaphet Kotto and Melissa Leo, the show based on David Simon’s book ran for more than 100 episodes and seven seasons in the 1990s and is considered by many to be a precursor to Simon’s The Wire. The HD remastered version launched on Peacock over the summer, and Fremantle, which holds non-u.S. rights, is prioritizing at MIPCOM Cannes, according to Fremantle Commercial and International COO McCourt, who said Homicide “revolutionized the crime genre.”

“We’ve known for a year that this is coming and have been...

Exclusive: Alysia Russo, who was Head of Docuseries at Amazon MGM Studios, is moving to Netflix.

It marks a rare senior executive moving directly between two rival studios.

Russo is understood to be working on feature docs at Netflix. While there are two executives from this team on maternity leave, Russo’s role is unrelated and is a temporary contract, thought to be 18 months.

Russo was behind Amazon docuseries such as LulaRich and its upcoming Glitter and Greed: The Lisa Frank Story, which comes from the producers of ID’s Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV.

Her move comes less than four months after a restructure within Amazon MGM Studios.

In May, Russo’s boss Lauren Anderson, who was Head of AVOD Programming and Studios Unscripted across U.S. Prime Video and Amazon Freevee, was named Head, Brand and Content Innovation, but continuing to oversee the AVOD originals team.

The success of ‘Prison Break’ follows the huge jump in popularity of ‘Suits’ after being licensed by Netflix.

The “Suits” phenomenon looks to be repeating itself for Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter cites data from Nielsen that shows that “Prison Break,” which originally aired starting in 2005, has become the newest licensed title to experience a huge growth in viewership after being licensed to the world’s largest streaming service. We’ll explore the phenomenon a little more fully, and take a guess at what shows might be next to strike it big on Netflix.

Key Details: “Prison Break” was streamed for 1.6 billion minutes between Aug. 5 and Aug. 11. A survey from 2023 showed a majority of viewers were choosing older library titles as their favorites as opposed to new originals. “Homicide: Life on the Street” and other titles could be big hits on Netflix. Sign Up $6.99+ / month netflix.com

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Sometimes it’s hard to revisit a favorite TV series you haven’t seen in decades. Will the show hold up or be hopelessly dated? Happily, NBC’s groundbreaking 1993-98 police series “Homicide: Life on the Street” is just as brilliant as it was three decades Peacock recently dropped all seven seasons as well as 2000’s “Homicide: The Movie.”.

As NPR noted: “It was a cop show without gun battles or car chases, with a bracing shot of street-level realism; film mostly in Baltimore. ‘Homicide’ presented stuff you just didn’t see on network television back then: shaky, kinetic camera work, working stiff police detectives cracking jokes at gruesome murder scenes…serialized stories that arced over several episodes, heart-rending killings that never get solved.”

The series, which was set in the fictional Baltimore Police Department Unit, was based on David Simon’s (“The Wire”) 1991 book “Homicide: A Year in the Life of the Killing Streets.

After years stuck in streaming jail, one of TV’s best cop dramas ever is free at last — and back on the beat.

All seven seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street are finally available to stream on Peacock, as of today, so fans who didn’t catch its original 1993-99 run on NBC can now discover why it’s acknowledged as a stone-cold classic. A gritty look at the life of Baltimore homicide detectives, Homicide boasts an impressive pedigree — it’s based on a book by The Wire’s David Simon, with Oz’s Tom Fontana and Oscar winner...

Today, Homicide: Life on the Street officially gave up its title as the Best TV Show You Can’t Stream. All 122 episodes of the Nineties cop drama are now on Peacock, along with Homicide: The Movie, a 2000 telefilm featuring the entire cast — even the ones whose characters died at some point in the previous seven seasons.

Here are 10 episodes to sample if you want to see what all the fuss is about.

“Gone for Goode” (Season 1, Episode 1)

The Homicide pilot introduces the show’s large, impressive ensemble in a shaggy...

Despite not ever garnering huge ratings on NBC, the critically acclaimed Baltimore-set police show Homicide: Life on the Streets won a number of awards, including several Emmys in its unexpected seven-season run (1993-1999). Created by Paul Attanasio and based on David Simon’s nonfiction book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Street, the show was innovative, beautifully cast appointment television that has had a profound influence on many fine shows that followed. And yet, though it was occasionally syndicated back in the day, Homicide was never available on streaming for fervent fans to rewatch and a new audience looking for fine fare to watch for the first time. That is until now when Peacock finally made it available for a new audience. TV Insider talked to executive producer Tom Fontana, who doesn’t watch his shows after the final edit), about his memories of the show, why it is considered a gem,...

Homicide: Life on the Street — the most sought-after, non-streaming show in a July 2023 TVLine poll, and the recipient of 17 Emmy nominations and four wins during its 1993-1999 run on NBC — is finally ready to be streamed.

All seven seasons of the acclaimed drama series as well as 2000’s Homicide: The Movie wrap-up, all remastered to HD and 4K for the first time, will begin streaming Monday, Aug. 19 on Peacock.

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Unsolved Mysteries volume 4 just recently dropped on Netflix in July 2024, and a new batch of episodes has already been confirmed for a release this October. These new episodes will be included in an Unsolved Mysteries volume 5, and we shared all that we know about them below.

The fifth volume will consist of four new episodes. An official release date has not been announced yet, but it's been said that the new episodes will be released just in time for Halloween. Sadly, what case each episode will cover is unknown at the moment, but show co-creator Terry Dunn Meurer is over the moon about what one of them will entail.

In a July 2024 interview with Variety, Meurer revealed that the true crime docuseries had been renewed for a fifth volume and that one of its episodes would feature the "most baffling mystery" of them all. I don't know about you, but...

As we move into August, we get the second half of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, and that makes it the perfect time to be a Peacock subscriber. Not only is Peacock the streaming home for literally every Olympic and Paralympic event, but it also boasts an impressive library of great movies and buzzy originals. In August, Peacock will also stream WWE and Nxt events highlighted by Summerslam, the start of the college football season, PGA and Lga golf tour stops, Indycar, and much more. The NBCU streamer is also home to original and exclusive Peacock series, and the next-day streaming of shows from across the NBCU family of networks, it is a good time to sign up for either a Peacock Premium ($7.99) or Peacock Premium Plus ($13.99) plan.

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“Cobra Kai” returned to Netflix with the first five episodes of its sixth and final season on July 18 and instantly resurged to the No. 1 position on the Netflix Top 10 for July 15-21. The season hit 14.8 million views in its first four days of streaming, and is sure to have a long run on the chart throughout this year and next, as another five episodes will drop on Nov. 15 followed by a final installation sometime in 2025.

“Vikings: Valhalla” Season 3 took second place with 6.4 million views in its first full week of availability after debuting at No. 1 the week before. The release of the new season has also driven strong viewership of previous seasons, with Seasons 1 and 2 returning to the chart at No. 6 with 2.4 million views and No. 10 with 1.9 million views, respectively.

“Simone Biles Rising” was the third-most-watched TV title of the week, clocking in at 4.7 million views in its first five days of streaming,...

Before David Simon debuted his groundbreaking socio-political tapestry “The Wire” to audiences and helped garner the prestige HBO now only reserves for “Game of Thrones” and superhero spinoffs, he wrote the book on the world of crime and law enforcement in Baltimore. Published in 1991, his non-fiction book “Homicide: A Year of Killing Streets” pools two years of research from Simon’s time spent observing the Baltimore Police Department, which itself followed four years spent on the police beat for The Baltimore Sun newspaper.

Wishing to adapt the book into a feature film, Simon got a copy to filmmaker and Baltimore native Barry Levinson, who felt the material was better suited to a TV series. Levinson shared with Paul Attansio, a former Washington Post film critic whose would go on to write the Oscar-nominated “Quiz Show,” as well as “Donnie Brasco,” and together the team brought the project to NBC, where...

Homicide: Life on the Street has been absent from streaming, but the critically acclaimed crime drama has finally found a new home and will launch next month. It has been announced that all seven seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street will be available on Peacock in the US starting on August 19th. All 122 episodes have been remastered for HD and 4K viewing, and Homicide: The Movie is also included.

The series was based on David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and was created by Paul Attanasio. It followed the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Unit. Bleak and unglamorous, the show was praised for its more realistic treatment of detectives and their work; threads weren’t always tied up at the end, and criminals sometimes got away. It also boasted one hell of a cast, including Andre Braugher, Ned Beatty, Yaphett Kotto, Melissa Leo, Giancarlo Esposito,...

The peak television renaissance didn't happen overnight. A decade prior to the epochal debut of "The Sopranos" on HBO, series as disparate in their aims as "The Simpsons," "Twin Peaks" and "The Larry Sanders Show" were challenging the industry's notions of what the broadcast medium could accomplish. Dramatic story arcs began to stretch out over a season or longer, while sitcoms got edgier and less hidebound to the multi-camera format. These successes emboldened major filmmakers to try their hand at episodic TV, which didn't always pan out. But it was always thrilling to see great artists romp about in a medium Hollywood once considered beneath them.

Of these efforts, it's possible none had a greater influence on the peak era than NBC's "Homicide: Life on the Street." When Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon began shopping his book "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets," an account of his time...

Homicide: Life on the Street is on the verge of abdicating the title of the Best TV Show You Can’t Stream. The network series and follow-up film Homicide: The Movie will premiere Aug. 19 on Peacock.

On June 17, David Simon — whose nonfiction book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, inspired the Emmy-winning NBC cop drama, and eventually launched Simon’s own acclaimed career in television with shows like The Wire and The Deuce — revealed that the biggest hurdle had been cleared to put the series on a streaming platform:...

NBCUniversal has finally been able to clear the music rights for one of the most beloved dramas in TV history.

For fans of prestige procedural crime dramas, there has been no holier grail in the streaming age than “Homicide: Life on the Streets.” The iconic NBC series that starred the late Andre Braugher and wrapped up its run in 2000 has not been available to stream on any platform in large part due to music licensing rights. However, on Monday, NBCUniversal announced that the show will finally be available to stream on Peacock beginning in August.

Key Details: After years, NBCU has cleared the must rights that had prevented “Homicide” from streaming. The show will now begin streaming on Peacock in August. NBC has also upgraded the video quality to HD and 4K for the first time ever. Sign Up $7.99+ / month peacocktv.com

All seven seasons of the show and its...

One of the more critically acclaimed dramas of the past 30 years has at last found a streaming home.

Starting Aug. 19, Peacock will feature Homicide: Life on the Street. All seven seasons and 122 episodes of the former NBC show, as well as the series-wrapping Homicide: The Movie from 2000, will be available, remastered for HD and 4K viewing.

Homicide was based on David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and created by Paul Attanasio; Tom Fontana was the showrunner and executive produced with Barry Levinson, Henry Bromell and Jim Finnerty. The series followed detectives in Baltimore’s homicide unit and was praised for its acting and a more realistic depiction of detective work — including some cases that don’t get solved — than on many other network crime dramas.

Over the show’s seven seasons, the cast featured Andre Braugher — who won his first Emmy 1998 for playing Detective Frank Pembleton — Ned Beatty,...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Homicide: Los Angeles.] Homicide: Los Angeles is the highly-anticipated follow-up to Homicide: New York, which launched on Netflix earlier this year. Law & Order honcho Dick Wolf brings his Homicide series to the City of Angels. Over the course of five episodes, detectives break down Los Angeles-centered cases. From the high-profile murder of Lana Clarkson to the murder of a pregnant woman found on the beach, the episodes peel back the curtain on the investigations, victims’ families, and the killers. Scroll down to get a status update on the killers responsible for these grisly murders. Hunting Phil Spector (Episode 1) The first episode of Homicide: Los Angeles examines the shocking murder of Lana Clarkson. Clarkson was shot and killed by record producer Phil Spector inside his mansion on February 3, 2003. The producer’s driver, Adriano, claimed that Spector called him the night of the murder and said he “killed” someone. Adriano made the initial 911 call.

This weekly feature is in addition to TVLine’s daily What to Watch listings and our monthly breakdown of What’s on Streaming.

With over 500 scripted shows now airing across broadcast, cable and streaming, it’s easy to forget that a favorite comedy is returning, or that the new “prestige drama” you anticipated is about to debut. So consider this our reminder to set your DVR, order a Season Pass, pop a fresh Memorex into the Vcr… however it is you roll.

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Netflix has a couple of major series airing all or part of their final seasons in July 2024. The hit Spanish drama Elite is set to premiere its eighth and final season in full this month with one final mystery (July 26), Vikings: Valhalla is setting off on one final adventure with its third season (July 11), and Cobra Kai is also entering its swan song era with the first part of its final sixth season arriving on Netflix July 18.

The most notable movie offering this month is Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (July 3). Thirty years after his last case, Eddie Murphy returns as the titular detective Axel Foley, teaming up with old pals Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton) to uncover a conspiracy and keep his daughter Jane (Taylour Paige) safe.

Here’s everything else coming to Netflix this month. Note that Netflix marks its international offerings with that respective country’s two-letter country code.

If you just renewed your Netflix subscription, you are in luck because the streamer has a lot to offer in the coming month. As always, Netflix will be rotating its content by adding many more movies and TV shows for its viewers to enjoy. But as always, the spotlight will be on Netflix originals.

From fun animated series for kids and adults to heavy historical dramas and messed-up documentaries, here's your Netflix must-watch list for July 2024.

Star Trek: Prodigy – July 1

July will be a good month for all Star Trek fans, as the funniest chapter of the franchise returns with another 20 episodes. Canceled by Paramount Plus in 2023 after only one season, the animated series survived by being picked up by Netflix and can now go for its second Children's and Family Emmy Award.

The Man with 1000 Kids – July 3

Speaking of children, this Netflix documentary may make any child-free person shiver.

It might seem like a no-brainer that Law & Order impresario Dick Wolf should extend his murder–centric franchise into the documentary space — or that Netflix, with its many true crime features and miniseries, attempt the same thing in episodic format — but neither really came to fruition until the March premiere of Homicide: New York. Naturally, the long wait carried a fair amount of pressure with it.

“Everyone understood the potential pitfalls of stepping into the true crime space and the tropes that come with it,” says Dan Cutforth, Homicide executive producer and one half of Alfred Street Industries. “We’ve all seen that done… not well. So, it was really important that it be executed on a very high level with this series.”

Homicide: New York dropped five episodes on March 21 and quickly shot to the top of Netflix’s domestic Top 10 chart, even enjoying a run atop David Benioff...

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem delivered its second straight No. 1 showing among streaming titles, leading the rankings for the last week of March. The acquired series top 10 had several new entrants, thanks in part to a change in how Nielsen reports the numbers.

The ratings service says it made an “enhancement” to its Streaming Content Ratings, which is the basis for the weekly top 10 lists, that results in a number of programs being added to the Scr product. (They weren’t previously “due to business agreements which preceded the rankings, coupled with the associated technical aspects of measurement.”) The affected programs stream mostly on Hulu and Peacock after airing on linear networks.

The upshot is that former Fox series The Resident (1.48 billion minutes on Hulu and Netflix) and animated mainstays Family Guy (837 million minutes on Hulu) and American Dad (619 million on Hulu) all made their first appearance in the top...

Beginning with the March 25-31 viewing window, Nielsen has expanded its streaming measurement capability, resulting in the company’s ability to report the viewership of a number of titles for which previously unavailable. Per Nielsen, a combination of previous business agreements and technical aspects of measurement prevented several acquired series from inclusion in its weekly rankings, and while most of those titles would not have made the Top 10 anyways, some are debuting for the first time thanks to more accurate analysis.

Among those titles is “The Resident,” which appeared on the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 for the first time during this viewing window in the No. 2 position with 1.5 billion minutes watched. The medical procedural ran on Fox for six seasons from 2018 to 2023 before being canceled, and has seen increased popularity since being added to Netflix in early March, though it was already available on Hulu.

“Family Guy” also jumped onto the...

The docuseries Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV posted Max’s best streaming numbers to date for its premiere week.

The show, which streamed on Max concurrent with its on-air premiere on ID, had 1.25 billion minutes of viewing for the week of March 18-24. That’s the largest weekly total for any series on Max in the nearly four years of Nielsen’s streaming rankings, edging out the 1.19 billion for The Last of Us in early 2023.

Netflix’s 3 Body Problem grabbed the overall No. 1 spot for the week (it premiered March 21), racking up 1.37 billion minutes over its first four days. The sci-fi series narrowly beat Prime Video’s remake of Road House, which had 1.32 billion minutes of viewing in the United States. Amazon had earlier claimed that the movie was Prime Video’s biggest film premiere worldwide so far.

Bluey (1.05 billion minutes) and Netflix’s docuseries...

Road House and Quiet on Set brought some variety to the Nielsen streaming charts in March.

During the week of March 18 to 24, there were four different streamers represented among the Top 5 streaming titles — Netflix, Prime Video, Max and Disney+. According to Nielsen, this is a rarity that has only occurred once before, when the same four platforms shared the stage in October 2022.

In the top spot was Netflix’s 3 Body Problem, which debuted all eight episodes on March 21. In its first four days on the streamer, it amassed 1.37B minutes viewed.

Second place went to Prime Video’s Road House, the reimagining of the 1980s Patrick Swayze film, which was right behind 3 Body Problem with an impressive 1.32B minutes viewed. This is particularly noteworthy because it is far shorter than 3 Body and therefore at a significant disadvantage when it comes to these streaming rankings.

Investigation Discovery’s docuseries...

“Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” debuted as the No. 3 title on Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings, notching just under 1.3 billion minutes during the March 18-24 viewing window. Episodes 1 and 2 launched on March 17, while Episodes 3 and 4 came on March 18.

This is the best single-week performance Nielsen has ever recorded for a Max title, beating the record previously set by “The Last of Us,” which was streamed for 1.2 billion minutes during the week of Jan 30-Feb 5, 2023.

The docuseries followed closely behind Netflix’s “3 Body Problem,” which was watched for nearly 1.4 billion minutes watched in four days, and “Road House,” the Amazon Prime Video movie that landed just over 1.3 billion minutes. With “Bluey” as the week’s No. 4 title with 1 billion minutes watched, this is the first week that Nielsen’s top four streaming titles have come from different platforms since October of 2022. Netflix’s “Homicide: New York...

When you think of Netflix documentaries, chances are you think of true crime. Retellings of horrific criminal events in which lives were irrevocably changed is big business, and so far this year, Netflix has continued to capitalize on that business. Back in February, the tale of online dating turning deadly in "Lover, Stalker, Killer" became a big hit, while March saw Dick Wolf's true crime series "Homicide: New York" chase "3 Body Problem" up the Netflix charts. Do we really know how trustworthy Netflix's viewing metrics are? Well, no, but still.

Sometimes, however, true crime doesn't quite satiate our thirst for deeply troubling entertainment, and when murder and mayhem aren't quite scratching the itch, there's always the paranormal. Enter "Files of the Unexplained." This latest Netflix docuseries hit the streamer on April 3 and, according to the official synopsis, chronicles "eerie encounters, bizarre disappearances, haunting events and more perplexing phenomena.

Netflix is at or near the top of both Nielsen and Luminate’s streaming rankings every week, but achieved that with some titles that differ from its usual fare during the March 29-April 3 viewing window.

As expected, “3 Body Problem” remained the most-watched streaming original series of the week per Luminate with 964.1 million minutes watched (an estimated 3.6 million views) — unsurprising, as the title is the follow-up from “Game of Thrones” helmers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, who created the show alongside Alexander Woo.

But right behind it was “Testament: The Story of Moses,” a biblical series that Netflix calls a “docudrama” that landed on the streamer in time for Easter weekend. Though the project differs from the content typically prioritized by Netflix (and most streamers) it reached a strong 707.8 million minutes watched. Divided by the series’ just over 4-hour runtime, that translates to an estimated 2.8 million views.

On the streaming original films chart,...

True crime remains a remarkably popular genre, especially when Netflix is involved. The streamer continues to pump out horrific real-life tales of murder and mayhem, with multiple examples in 2024 already. Back in February, "Lover, Stalker, Killer" proved incredibly popular with its tale of online dating turned deadly, while "sickening" documentary "Hell Camp: Teen Nightmare" similarly drew hordes of viewers. Now, we've got yet another Netflix true crime hit on our hands with "Homicide: New York."

From "Law & Order" creator Dick Wolf, this latest docuseries explores multiple crimes from New York history. Interviews with detectives, prosecutors, victims, and friends and family all help to pad out the retellings and give a more personal insight into the various crimes, which range from the 2001 Carnegie Deli massacre to a 1997 stabbing murder. These cases are supposedly among the investigators' toughest and most challenging, and are explored throughout the series' five episodes. The conceit...

“Road House” was the most-watched streaming original title for the week of March 22-28, per Luminate. Based on the 1989 Patrick Swayze flick of the same, the Amazon Prime Video project was watched for 1.7 billion minutes during this viewing window.

The week before, “Road House” debuted at No. 5 on the movies chart with 121.5 million minutes watched, despite only having been available for one day. Evidently, the Jake Gyllenhaal remake picked up steam throughout its first week of availability, with an increased daily average of nearly 250 million minutes watched.

Divided by its 121-minute runtime, this week’s 1.7 billion viewing minutes of “Road House” translate to an estimated 13.9 million total views.

“Shirley,” the Netflix biopic about the pioneering politician Shirley Chisholm, debuted as the No. 2 movie with 298.7 million minutes watched. In total views, however, it was still beat by last week’s winning movie: “Irish Wish,” which clocked in at No. 3 from March...

Netflix’s true crime series Homicide: New York’s first installment, “Carnegie Deli Massacre,” opens with the brutal murders of Jennifer Stahl, Charles “Trey” Helliwell, and Stephen King. The episode features NYPD Lieutenant Roger Parrino; Barbara Butcher, the second woman ever hired for the role of Death Investigator in Manhattan; and retired NYPD Det. Irma Rivera. The case plagues these veteran law enforcement professionals enough to revisit the evidence. The deaths seem to have weighed heavily on producer Dick Wolf too. “Tragedy on Rye,” a season 14 episode of his signature show Law & Order, is based on the tragic incident.

The crime also haunted New York. The murders happened on May 10, 2001, during a period when city crime had been on a downswing, and media at the time dredged up fears Times Square would go back to its not-so-distant wild and dangerous earlier character. Like the detectives in the show, it...

The case of Arohn Kee was among those featured in Netflix's Homicide: New York.

In Episode 5 of Homicide: New York, "East Harlem Serial Killer," the Netflix true-crime series turned the focus to Arohn Kee, a rapist who tormented the Manhattan neighborhood for seven years in the 1990s.

What Did Arohn Kee Do in Homicide: New York? Read full article on The Direct.

David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo’s sci-fi epic “3 Body Problem” debuted at No. 2 on Netflix’s English-language TV in its launch week. The drama came in behind Guy Ritchie’s “The Gentlemen” which has reached its third week at No. 1 on the list.

From March 18-24, “The Gentlemen” had 11.7 million views, just edging out “3 Body Problem,” with 11 million views over its first four days of availability.

Third place went to list newcomer “Homicide: New York” (6.6 million views), fourth to “Avatar: The Last Airbender” (3.4 million), which was in Week 5 on the Top 10, fifth to “Hot Wheels Let’s Race” (2.4 million), sixth to the first season of “Monk” (2 million), seventh was a tie between “Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War,” The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping,” “Fool Me Once,” and “One Day,” all with 1.3 million views.

On the film side, Lindsay Lohan’s rom-com “Irish Wish...

Jennifer Stahl became a trending topic online as fans revisit her role and scenes from the hit 1987 romcom Dirty Dancing.

The late actress hit the peak of her acting career with a role as a featured dancer in Dirty Dancing before she was tragically murdered 14 years later.

She then became the subject of the Netflix documentary Homicide: New York, started by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, which dives into recollections of her death and others in the Big Apple over the years.

Read full article on The Direct.

The Ides of March were marked this year by a three-way race among high profile filmmakers – Peter Farrelly, Doug Liman and Guy Ritchie – with original streaming film and TV series debuts across Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. But the sleeper success story of the week belonged to Netflix’s Lindsay Lohan rom com movie “Irish Wish.”

Ritchie made a splashy debut on March 7 with Netflix’s “The Gentlemen,” an eight-episode TV heist drama delivered in the director’s signature style. In its second week, “Gentlemen” had solid hold with a modest 30% decline to 1.3 billion minutes watched during the March 15-21 frame, according to original streaming content ratings calculated by Luminate.

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Liman’s “Road House” redux with Jake Gyllenhaal grabbed attention in its March 21 debut on Prime Video. In its first day in release, the title amassed a respectable 121.5 million minutes watched,...

Dick Wolf’s new partnership with Netflix, Homicide: New York, celebrates the city’s bluest – those investigators who specialize in the aftermath of untimely death. The true crime docuseries follows the format of Law & Order, and is forced to dramatically condense the work done by law enforcement, like so many dusty boxes in an evidence room.

“On the island of Manhattan, there are two detective squads dedicated to homicides: Manhattan North and Manhattan South,” each episode begins. “They investigate the most brutal and difficult murders. These are their stories.” Central Park is a shared story for all New Yorkers, whether their own neighborhood boasts Tompkins Park, Morningside Park, or through the arch at Washington Square.

Native New Yorkers of all boroughs, and tourists from around the world visiting Strawberry Fields in the ‘90s probably saw Daphne Abdela and Christopher Vasquez rollerblading out of the corners of their eyes. Central Park was their neighborhood park.

In the first episode of Homicide: New York, a five-part Netflix docuseries, we saw how the NYPD officers shared their experiences regarding a 2001 murder case at Carnegie Deli involving a young woman’s death. In the second episode, we were introduced to the homicide case involving a middle-aged man’s death in 1997. A teen couple, Daphne Abdela and her then-boyfriend, Christopher Vazquez, were arrested for carrying out this heinous crime. In the third episode of the series, the NYPD detectives looked into another homicide case involving Eridania Rodriguez, a woman of color who was brutally tortured and killed inside a building on Two Rector Street. Let’s look into this episode to see how the detectives connected the dots and eventually brought the perpetrator of the crime to justice.

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What Happened To Eridania Rodriguez?

On July 7, 2009, a 46-year-old woman named Eridania Rodriguez, who worked as a cleaning lady at Two Rector Street,...

In the previous episode of Homicide: New York, a diligent force of NYPD detectives solved a bone-chilling murder case that took place in Carnegie Deli, at an aspiring actress’s apartment. In the second episode of the series, the detectives talked about the horrifying murder of a middle-aged man in Central Park, NYC, committed by two desperate teenagers in a fit of rage. The more we delve deeper into the case, the more we get to know about youth violence, which is caused by a significant lack of parental guidance. Here’s our recap of the second episode of this series, which revolves around this murder case and how the NYPD detectives managed to gather evidence against these two teen perpetrators of the crime.

Who Was Michael McMorrow?

The second episode opened with a business tycoon, Mr. Abdela, calling the detectives to his apartment to look for his daughter, who was nowhere to be found.

In the gripping new crime thriller series on Netflix, Homicide: New York, the fifth episode is named East Harlem Serial Killer. This bone-chilling case delves into the haunting story of a serial killer popularly known as “Ace.” His victims are young girls, predominantly teenagers and black Hispanic girls, living in the East Harlem area of New York. The perpetrator’s modus operandi involves a gruesome mix of murder, rape, and burning of the victims. As the narrative unfolds, the pressing question is: Who is Ace? Will law enforcement manage to catch him? Join us as we witness the relentless efforts of police and detectives working tirelessly to serve justice in this case.

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Who Is Rasheda Washington?

The case is set in the East Harlem area of New York, where in the 1980s various cases of murder occurred and the number of serial killers was alarmingly high. In 1983, Irma Rivera...

The more crime documentaries I watch, the more I realize how tough and terrifying a job it is to become a detective, especially for homicide cases. It takes a lot of courage and an open mind at the same time to confront a killer and make them talk about what they did and why they did it. Netflix has always done a great job when it comes to true crime docuseries, and another intriguing series was recently added to their list. Homicide: New York is a five-part docuseries that showcases five bone-chilling murder cases that took place in NYC. Both the detective squads from Manhattan South and North shared their experiences dealing with these crimes and how they had been able to find the murderers and bring them to justice. Here’s our recap of the first episode of this series, Carnegie Deli Massacre, that talks about how these diligent...

Famous television producer Dick Wolf, creator of the iconic Law & Order, has a new show on Netflix called Homicide: New York. It’s about real crimes happening in New York City. The show follows cops and detectives as they try to solve these crimes and bring the community justice. One really interesting episode is called Midtown Slasher. It’s about a guy named Howard Pilmar, who was a big shot in business. Everyone loved him, but then something terrible happened—he got killed! Now, people are wondering why anyone would want to hurt someone as nice and well-respected as Howard. Was it for money, or did they have some other reason? This episode will get you all worked up and keep you on the edge of your seat with its shocking revelations. So, get ready to be hooked!

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Who Was Howard Pilmar?

Howard Pilmar was a beloved son,...

Fans of Law & Order will be familiar with the “ripped from the headlines” cases based on real crimes — but on Homicide: New York, the new docuseries from the mind of Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, every twist, turn, and harrowing detail is real.

From the officers tasked with cracking the case, to the intense grief experienced by those left in the wake of a violent crime, to the complicated process of bringing perpetrators to justice, the new five-episode series from Wolf Entertainment alongside Alfred Street Industries shares law enforcement’s recollections of some of their grisliest cases. As one officer puts it in the series, “Every single case takes a little piece out of your soul.”

“In New York, homicide detectives are divided between north and south Manhattan,” executive producer Adam Kassen told Netflix. The NYPD is massive. You can work in that department and not actually know...

Law & Order boss Dick Wolf is diving into the true-crime world next. Homicide: New York, which premiered on Wednesday, March 20, is a new Netflix docuseries that chronicles some of the most notorious murder cases in New York City. The cases featured in the five-episode series are told by the detectives and prosecutors who helped solve them. After watching, you may be curious to know what happened to the killers at the center of these grisly stories, so here’s a status check on the people behind these shocking crimes. Carnegie Deli Massacre (Episode 1) Sean Salley and Andre “Dre” Smith were convicted in the 2001 Carnegie Deli killings involving Dirty Dancing actress Jennifer Stahl. Five people were shot in Stahl’s apartment above the famous deli on May 10, 2001. Three of the victims, including Stahl, were killed. Salley and Smith were each found guilty of ...

The upcoming week will mostly be marked by a plethora of reality shows with some notable expectations arriving on Apple TV+, Disney+, and Netflix. The highlight of the week will certainly be the long-awaited ‘X-Men ’97’, ‘Three-Body Problem’ and ‘Davey & Jonesie’s Locker’ and ‘My Undead Yokai Girlfriend.’ Let’s see what’s new:

1. ‘Photographer’ Season 1

The show will explore the work and influence of renowned photographers Campbell Addy, Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen, Muhammed Muheisen, Anand Varma, Dan Winters, and Krystle Wright across different genres of photography. ‘Photographer’ will premiere on National Geographic on Monday, March 18 at 8:00 Pm-10:00 Pm Est and if you miss an episode you can always stream it a day later on Disney+ and Hulu. The first season will consist of 6 episodes in total.

2. ‘Physical: 100’ Season 2

‘Physical: 100’ is a reality show which returns with the second season on Netflix. The premise of the...

André Braugher has died. The two-time Emmy-winning star of series including Homicide: Life on the Street, Men of a Certain Age and Brooklyn Nine-Nine was 61.

Braugher, whose first film role came alongside Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington in the Ed Zwick-directed Glory, died Monday after a brief illness.

While Braugher peppered his résumé with comedies, many will remember him for his ferocious portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC drama Homicide: Life on the Street. Put him in “the box,” sweating out and outsmarting crime suspects in the interrogation room, and you were looking at a weekly dose of tour de force acting, as good as it got on television during that time. He won an Emmy for that show he starred in from 1992-98. His wife, Ami Brabson, recurred as Pembleton’s wife on Homicide.

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Clockwise from upper left: Star Wars (Disney), Raiders Of The Lost Ark (Disney), The Fugitive (Warner Bros.), Blade Runner (Warner Bros.) American Graffiti (Universal), Hollywood Homicide (Sony) Graphic: AVClub Harrison Ford is one of our biggest, most iconic movie stars. Much like Gary Cooper and Clint Eastwood, he tends to play tough,...

Edward R. Pressman, the prolific Hollywood indie producer behind Wall Street, Badlands, American Psycho, Das Boot and The Crow, among dozens of others, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 79.

His death was confirmed to Deadline his company, Pressman Films.

With dozens of acclaimed and impactful films and TV movies stretching back to the late 1960s and including now-classics like Conan the Barbarian, Talk Radio, Bad Lieutenant and Brian De Palma’s 1972 Sisters, Pressman was noted for discovering talented directors early in their careers. In addition to Sisters he produced De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise, and, with the acclaimed 1973 TV-movie Badlands, Terrence Malick. Jason Reitman made his directing debut in Pressman’s 2005 Aaron Eckhart starrer Thank You for Smoking.

An early collaboration with Oliver Stone on the 1981 drama The Hand paved the way for Talk Radio (1988) and the 1987 Oscar-winning Wall Street. He and Stone produced Kathryn Bigelow’s early film Blue Steel (1990).

Among the other directors with whom Pressman would forge early bonds were Alex Proyas (The Crow), Sylvester Stallone (Paradise Alley) and Sam Raimi (Crimewave).

Among his many other credits both domestic and international, either as producer or executive producer, are Fred Schepisi’s Plenty, starring Meryl Streep; Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot; Mary Harron’s American Psycho, with Christian Bale; James Toback’s Two Girls and a Guy; Harold Becker’s City Hall, starring Al Pacino; Danny DeVito’s Hoffa, starring Jack Nicholson; Charles Burnett’s To Sleep With Anger, starring Danny Glover; Barbet Schroeder’s Reversal of Fortune, starring Jeremy Irons in an Oscar-winning performance as Claus von Bülow; and John Frankenheimer’s The Island of Dr. Moreau, with Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer.

Pressman also earned Emmy and PGA Award nom as an executive producer of the 2018 HBO telefilm Paterno, and former longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. The producer also was nominated for back-to-back Indie Spirit Awards in 1992 and ’93 for Homicide and Bad Lieutenant, respectively, and received Film Independent’s John Cassavetes Award in 1991. He also received a Tribute Award from the Gothams in 2003.

A native New Yorker and Stanford University graduate who also studied at the London School of Economics, Pressman has been honored by the French Cinematheque, The National Film Theatre in London, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Pacific Film Archives and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematék, among others.

Pressman is survived by his wife of 39 years, Annie McEnroe Pressman, and son Sam Pressman, who has worked for Edward R. Pressman Productions for the past decade and says he will continue producing films for the company in honor of his father.