Oxygen Media is amping its original true crime slate with six new greenlights and five series in development. In the mix are projects from Kim Kardashian West, Mark Wahlberg, Ice-T, Jason Blum, Nancy Grace, Kate Snow and Paul Holes. Among greenlights: Kim Kardashian: The Justice Project (working title), which follows Kardashian’s mission to fight for those she and legal experts believe were unfairly incarcerated,exec-produced by Kardashian and Bunim Murray Productions; Injustice with Nancy Grace, produced by the Intellectual Property Corp. in conjunction with KT Studios and TAP INc., which exposes stories involving unclear motives, botched investigations, wrongful accusations, and suppressed evidence; The DNA of Murder with Paul Holes, produced by Wilshire Studios; Relentless with Kate Snow, produced by Peacock Productions, which touches base with families who’ve lost a member in an unsolved crime; Truth & Justice: The West Memphis Three (working title), produced by Herzog & Co., Discount Sushi and XG Productions, based on the podcast Truth & Justice; and The Lover’s Lane Murders (working title), produced by XG Productions and Texas Crew Productions. On the development list, and all working titles, are Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas-produced Exploited, which follows the ongoing work of the DeliverFund, as they tackle the current US sex trafficking epidemic. Also, Framed By The Killer, produced by The Content Group with Ice-T, among others; Florida Man, from Blumhouse Television and Man vs Robot; The Jane Doe Murders, probing open cases where a victim of a violent crime remains unidentified; and The Vanished Project, developed to live across social, digital and linear platforms.
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