Hilarie Burton Morgan’s ‘It Couldn’t Happen Here’ Renewed At SundanceTV As AMC Networks Builds Out True-Crime Slate
29.03.2023 - 16:53
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EXCLUSIVE: AMC Networks is continuing its true-crime drive.
The company’s SundanceTV has renewed Hilarie Burton Morgan’s It Couldn’t Happen Here and has also ordered two new series as it ramps up its True Crime Story franchise.
It Couldn’t Happen Here returns for a second season, hosted by One Tree Hill and The Walking Dead star Burton Morgan.
Separately, it has ordered True Crime Story: Citizen Detective and Crimes of Entitlement (w/t). The three series will air on SundanceTV, AMC+ and SundanceNow.
Citizen Detective is a documentary series that examines true-crime stories through the eyes of the untrained amateur sleuths who solved them or are still trying to do so. Each episode spotlights one new crime and the crime-fighter determined to make sure the case he or she is obsessed with is ultimately classified as closed.
It comes from RuPaul’s Drag Race producer World of Wonder and is exec produced by Randy Barbato, Fenton Bailey, Josh Bingham and Tom Campbell.
Crimes of Entitlement explores what happens when people who have little to gain and much to lose resort to criminal behavior. Blinded by their ego and sense of entitlement, they plan and execute the most elaborate crimes, to the point of absurdity. So, why do they do it? Each episode will examine one of those absurd crimes and the entitled people behind them.
It comes from Sidestilt Films, the company behind The Pez Outlaw documentary and is exec produced by Amy Bandlien Storkel and Bryan Storkel.
It Couldn’t Happen Here will feature another six episodes with Burton Morgan exploring more small-town American crime stories and how they impact these communities. The first season, for instance, helped secure freedom for Devonia Inman, who had been wrongfully