Hulu is expanding its market on the world of true crime with a new documentary calledDead Asleepand a docuseries calledCaptive Audience! During the Television Critics Association’s Summer Press Tour, Hulu announced a line-up of new programming coming to the platform including the two new true crime additions.
Dead Asleepis being directed bySkye Borgman, who was behind the acclaimed documentaryAbducted In Plain Sightand recently worked with Pulse Films on their Oxygen special titledThe Case Died With Her. Pulse Films executive producers includeMarisa Clifford, Nelesh Dhand,andSunshine Jackson. The executive producers for Sky U.K. includeJack OliverandPoppy Dixon.Captive Audienceis directed byUnsolved Mysteries’Jessica Dimmockand is executive produced byAnthony Russo, Joe Russo, Jen Casey, andAndrew Jacobs, as well asMike Larocca, Todd Makurath, Nick Gilhool,andPeter Rieveschl.
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The press release describesDead Asleepas follows: “Did a remorseful Randy Herman Jr. really commit a brutal murder in his sleep, or was it a convenient cover story? Pulse Films has secured exclusive access to Herman and his family, the defense and prosecution attorneys, journalists who covered the case, forensic psychiatrists and world experts in violent parasomnia (sleep-walking) to give viewers an inside look at the shocking twists and turns of the controversial crime.”
Captive Audiencetells the story ofSteven Stayner, who disappeared at 7 years old in 1972. The series tells the story of Stayner, who “mysteriously vanished on his way home from school. Nearly a decade later, his dramatic return to his family sparked ‘80s-era “stranger danger” warnings, legal reforms and one iconic Made-For-TV-Movie2, in which the family’s ordeal was transformed into a prime-time miniseries watched by 70 million Americans. When the credits rolled and the movie ended, it closed one tragic chapter of the family’s life but opened another.” What makes this series unique is that it spans a family’s 50-year journey to discovering the truth and the story of two brothers, “one deemed a villain and the other a hero,” and what is a story versus the truth.
The true crime world is something that so many of us have clung to and we yearn for more content. Hulu giving us bothDead AsleepandCaptive Audienceis just a new jump into the world of true crime documentaries and docuseries for the platform and we can’t wait to see what both these titles have in store for us!
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