ID Explores the Dark Side of L.A.

SILVER SPRING: This January, Investigation Discovery (ID) will launch the new series James Ellroy’s LA: City of Demons, with the bestselling author presenting his take on some of Hollywood’s most notorious crimes of the past and present.

Ellroy is behind the books The Black Dahlia, L.A. Confidential and Blood’s a Rover. The new six-part series features Ellory’s larger-than-life personality and he explores and exposes the dark side of Hollywood. The series begins with a deeply personal account of the genesis of Ellroy’s fascination with crime, the unsolved murder of his mother in 1958. The episodes will feature in-depth interviews with witnesses, prosecutors, investigators and jurors, taking viewers deep into crimes that have helped define Los Angeles.

"James Ellroy is the preeminent crime writer in the world, today, and provides our audience with an outrageous roller-coaster ride that neither they nor ID ever wants to end," said Henry Schleiff, the president and general manager of Investigation Discovery. "Indeed, while Ellroy has said that crime owns him, what is even more fascinating is how this ‘Diogenes of the Dark’ captivates millions of readers and our audience through his incredible storytelling."

Ellroy added: "Crime is a palpitatingly perennial gas—and L.A. crime is the craaaazy creme-de-la-crime. Viewers are terribly tired of the trailer trash tragedies that caustically contaminate documentary TV. They wantonly want to groove, grok, gravitate and glide toward glamorous crime—and L.A. is where all that shimmering shstuffpervertedly percolates. This show will be serious, satirical and great fun. My mad mottoes are ‘Tell it like it is’ and ‘Let it all hang out’—and Barko, the baaaad bull terrier, and I intend to do both."