Updated with trailer: NBC has a date with a killer next month — three dates, actually. The network said today that its three-part true-crime docuseries The Widower, from the producers of Dateline NBC, will premiere at 10 p.m. Thursday, February 18. Watch the first trailer above.
The hourlong debut episode will be followed by two-hour Parts 2 and 3 starting at 9 p.m. Friday and Sunday, February 19 and 21.
NBC was short on details about the docuseries but said The Widower goes behind the scenes of one of the country’s most confounding murder investigations, revealing a tale of evil and a tireless quest for justice in real time. It features unprecedented and exclusive access to the alleged killer playing cat-and-mouse not just with investigators, but with Dateline’s cameras.
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The hourlong debut episode will be followed by two-hour Parts 2 and 3 starting at 9 p.m. Friday and Sunday, February 19 and 21.
NBC was short on details about the docuseries but said The Widower goes behind the scenes of one of the country’s most confounding murder investigations, revealing a tale of evil and a tireless quest for justice in real time. It features unprecedented and exclusive access to the alleged killer playing cat-and-mouse not just with investigators, but with Dateline’s cameras.
Winter 2021 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming
Dateline NBC’s David Corvo serves as senior executive producer of The Widower, and...
- 2/11/2021
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Dateline NBC is set to launch a new podcast in the true-crime genre. The first two episodes of the six-episode Motive for Murder will drop May 7, followed by one episode each Thursday for the next four weeks.
Narrated by Josh Mankiewicz, Motive for Murder, which hails from the team behind Dateline’s Webby-nominated podcast The Thing About Pam, chronicles a case the news magazine show covered for broadcast in November. It looks at two murders, months apart, in Houston. The young victims knew each other, and asks the question, did they also know their elusive killer? Motive For Murder tells the chilling story of the race to find the killer by unmasking the motive. You can listen to a trailer here.
Motive for Murder is Dateline‘s third original podcast, and second true-crime original podcast. The Thing About Pam, hosted by Keith Morrison, regularly hit the #1 spot on Apple...
Narrated by Josh Mankiewicz, Motive for Murder, which hails from the team behind Dateline’s Webby-nominated podcast The Thing About Pam, chronicles a case the news magazine show covered for broadcast in November. It looks at two murders, months apart, in Houston. The young victims knew each other, and asks the question, did they also know their elusive killer? Motive For Murder tells the chilling story of the race to find the killer by unmasking the motive. You can listen to a trailer here.
Motive for Murder is Dateline‘s third original podcast, and second true-crime original podcast. The Thing About Pam, hosted by Keith Morrison, regularly hit the #1 spot on Apple...
- 4/30/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Christmas week may seem an unusual time to release a pair of movies that largely take place on death row. But the folks behind “Just Mercy” and “Clemency” hope the holiday spirit will be open-hearted, and that the timing is, in fact, appropriate.
Two feature films round out a year where various media shed light on the plight of prisoners, especially those wrongfully convicted or harshly sentenced.
“Clemency,” which opens Friday, stars Alfre Woodard as a warden who witnesses two executions, leading to a personal crisis of conscience.
In “Just Mercy,” opening Christmas Day,” Michael B. Jordan stars in the true story of Harvard graduate Bryan Stevenson, who has spent decades fighting for the exoneration of erroneously charged prisoners. This film, in particular, will surely be noted come Oscar time, with newly-minted SAG Award nominee Jamie Foxx — who portrays the key defendant in a Stevenson case — a likely candidate for Best Supporting Actor.
Two feature films round out a year where various media shed light on the plight of prisoners, especially those wrongfully convicted or harshly sentenced.
“Clemency,” which opens Friday, stars Alfre Woodard as a warden who witnesses two executions, leading to a personal crisis of conscience.
In “Just Mercy,” opening Christmas Day,” Michael B. Jordan stars in the true story of Harvard graduate Bryan Stevenson, who has spent decades fighting for the exoneration of erroneously charged prisoners. This film, in particular, will surely be noted come Oscar time, with newly-minted SAG Award nominee Jamie Foxx — who portrays the key defendant in a Stevenson case — a likely candidate for Best Supporting Actor.
- 12/23/2019
- by Mary Murphy and Michele Willens
- The Wrap
Lester Holt has traveled to war-torn spectacles in foreign lands and America’s smallest towns, all on behalf of NBC News. For his next journey, Holt had to go somewhere even more unusual – prison.
As part of “Justice for All,” a broader NBC News report on criminal justice reform, Holt made his way to Louisiana State Penitentiary, the maximum-security prison known as Angola, for a two-night stay in a cell. The results will be shown on NBC’s “Dateline” on Friday at 10 p.m.. On Sunday at 10, MSNBC will show a “town hall” broadcast from Sing Sing Correctional Facility, another maximum-security facility in Ossining, NY, where he will discuss the topic of the week with, among others, singer John Legend, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and 25 inmates from the prison.
If the description above makes you rub your eyes in disbelief, well, mission accomplished. “There is nothing normal...
As part of “Justice for All,” a broader NBC News report on criminal justice reform, Holt made his way to Louisiana State Penitentiary, the maximum-security prison known as Angola, for a two-night stay in a cell. The results will be shown on NBC’s “Dateline” on Friday at 10 p.m.. On Sunday at 10, MSNBC will show a “town hall” broadcast from Sing Sing Correctional Facility, another maximum-security facility in Ossining, NY, where he will discuss the topic of the week with, among others, singer John Legend, former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and 25 inmates from the prison.
If the description above makes you rub your eyes in disbelief, well, mission accomplished. “There is nothing normal...
- 9/4/2019
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
The long-running newsmagazine “Dateline” is about to explore a mystery that can’t be neatly wrapped in the one or two hours NBC typically devotes to the program: Can a TV-news staple flourish in the world of podcasts?
Producers hope so. NBC News today launched “13 Alibis,” a twisty audio-based tale of a man, Richard Rosario, who served 20 years in prison even though 13 different people were ready to vouch that he could not have committed the crime of which he was accused. “It’s told in the first person, through my eyes. It is my journey in the search for the truth,” says Dan Slepian, a “Dateline” producer who specializes in cases of wrongful conviction. “The audience might be as stunned as I was.”
NBC News will release 7 episodes of the podcast, each 15 to 20 minutes in length, and devote a page to it online. There are hopes it will be the...
Producers hope so. NBC News today launched “13 Alibis,” a twisty audio-based tale of a man, Richard Rosario, who served 20 years in prison even though 13 different people were ready to vouch that he could not have committed the crime of which he was accused. “It’s told in the first person, through my eyes. It is my journey in the search for the truth,” says Dan Slepian, a “Dateline” producer who specializes in cases of wrongful conviction. “The audience might be as stunned as I was.”
NBC News will release 7 episodes of the podcast, each 15 to 20 minutes in length, and devote a page to it online. There are hopes it will be the...
- 5/16/2019
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
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