TEGNA Partners with Law&Crime Productions & Cineflix Rights

TEGNA has signed a multiyear deal with Dan Abrams’ Law&Crime Productions and Cineflix Rights to co-produce original docuseries.

The partnership will launch with the production of 50 hour-long episodes, starting with the new series Cult Justice. It examines the allure and power of cults such as the NXIVM sex cult and The Family, a present-day iteration of the Children of God cult.

Cult Justice will be led by executive producers and showrunners Brian Ross and Rhonda Schwartz. They will also lead all 50 true-crime episodes to be produced under the partnership. Abrams, Rachel Stockman, John Ford and Felicia Litovitz will also serve as executive producers on the shows.

TEGNA’s VAULT Studios and Law&Crime Productions will also collaborate on a podcast based on the hit series Killer Cases.

“The partnership with Law&Crime and Cineflix Rights solidifies TEGNA’s position as a player in original true-crime programming,” said Brian Weiss, VP of entertainment programming and multicast networks at TEGNA. “Along with the success of True Crime Network, the growth of VAULT Studios and the treasure trove of stories in our expansive content library, this deal reinforces our role as a future leader in the unscripted entertainment content space.”

Stockman, president of Law&Crime Productions, added, “Law&Crime’s team of experienced legal and crime producers is excited to take a deep dive into TEGNA’s extensive and unique library of true crime and investigative footage. We are thrilled to partner with TEGNA and Cineflix Rights in this first-of-its-kind deal that gives us access to thousands of impactful stories in markets all around America.”

“We are delighted to be able to build on our strong global partnership established with TEGNA and Law&Crime over two seasons of the global hit series Killer Cases and look forward to bringing their exciting new crime and investigative content to our global buyers,” said Richard Life, head of acquisitions at Cineflix Rights, which will act as the exclusive global distributor for the new series produced by Law&Crime Productions.