Channel 4 Orders New Princess Diana Docuseries

Channel 4 has commissioned Sandpaper Films for a new docuseries that will delve into the tragic death of Princess Diana.

Investigating Diana: Death in Paris will tell the story of two police investigations into the Paris car crash that killed the royal—one by the French Brigade Criminelle in 1997 and one by the Metropolitan Police in 2004. Directed by Will Jessop and Barnaby Pell, it is made by Sandpaper in co-production with discovery+.

The docuseries will explore how both investigations grappled to separate fact from speculation, hearing how detectives chased every lead while maneuvering between unreliable witnesses and memories. It will also examine the public’s demand for answers and how conspiracy theories were fueled and overwhelmed the facts of the case.

Henry Singer, executive producer for Sandpaper Films, said: “This was a really important series to make—not only because we hope it will lay to rest the conspiracy theories that continue to obscure the truth of what happened in the Alma tunnel that night—but because the story is a window into the world today, where conspiracy theories no longer reside in the dark corners of the internet but have gone mainstream and are actually pushed by people in positions of real power.”

Shaminder Nahal, head of specialist factual and commissioning editor at Channel 4, added: “This utterly compelling series explores in forensic detail what happened in the investigations following the death of Princess Diana—what it was like for the detectives working on a huge global news story that was not just a tragedy for the families involved, but a massive internet phenomenon too. In the end, the series asks profound questions about ourselves as a society and the nature of truth.”