{"id":21860,"date":"2024-08-19T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-like-a-shot-west-set-twisted-twins-series\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T10:45:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:45:55","slug":"itv-like-a-shot-west-set-twisted-twins-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/itv-like-a-shot-west-set-twisted-twins-series\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV &#038; Like A Shot West Set Twisted Twins Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITV and Like A Shot West, part of Argonon, have partnered for the two-part true-crime series <em>Twisted Twins<\/em>, telling the stories of identical twins involved in cases of murder.<\/p>\n<p>One episode charts the 1982 disappearance of Australian Lyn Dawson, which went unsolved for over 35 years. When a podcast shed new light on her story, accusations were made against her husband, Chris Dawson, and his identical twin brother Paul, both former part-time models and professional Rugby League players. The episode details the events that led to Chris standing trial and explores allegations of historic sexual offenses by the brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The Dawson episode does so through interviews with friends, family and those who knew the Dawsons.<\/p>\n<p>The other episode investigates the true story of Atlanta teenage twin sisters Jasmiyah and Tasmiyah Whitehead, who were convicted of killing their own mother. In 2010, the sisters flagged down a police car outside their home and told the officers who raced to the scene that they had found their mother brutally murdered\u2014she had been attacked with a vase and stabbed over 60 times.<\/p>\n<p>Following a trial of evidence and through interviews with family friends, detectives, twin psychologists and lawyers involved in the original case, the episode explores the events that led the sisters to commit the crime and determine if they would have done it if they were not twins.<\/p>\n<p>ITV Studios is handling distribution for the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough first-person testimony and extensive archive footage, <em>Twisted Twins<\/em> investigates the uniquely compelling cases of twin true crime,\u201d said Danny O\u2019Brien, head of programming at Like A Shot. \u201cIn exploring the psychology of troubled twinship, the documentary examines if the intensity of the bonds directly led to\u2014or influenced\u2014truly horrific crimes being committed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry Scott, managing director at Like A Shot, added, \u201cThis gripping new documentary series marks an exciting new direction for Like A Shot West, with our first commission from ITV and our debut series in the true-crime space, building on our wider slate of factual shows for U.K., U.S. and international networks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis series offers a unique take on the psychology of identical twins and a singular twist on the crime genre\u2014offering a double layer of impact and insight,\u201d commented Jo Clinton-Davis, controller of factual at ITV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV and Like A Shot West, part of Argonon, have partnered for the two-part true-crime series Twisted Twins, telling the stories of identical twins involved in cases of murder, manslaughter and missing persons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":21861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[6240,9880,9881,423,843,6722,9882],"class_list":["post-21860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-argonon","tag-danny-obrien","tag-henry-scott","tag-itv","tag-itv-studios","tag-jo-clinton-davis","tag-like-a-shot-west","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ITV &amp; 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