{"id":24087,"date":"2025-11-04T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/mgm-greenlights-true-crime-docuseries\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T12:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T17:19:50","slug":"mgm-greenlights-true-crime-docuseries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/mgm-greenlights-true-crime-docuseries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM+ Greenlights True-Crime Docuseries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Hillside Strangler<\/em>, a four-part true-crime docuseries for MGM+, will premiere on January 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The Hillside Strangler<\/em> is a compelling deep dive into an infamous serial killing that terrorized Southern California in the late 1970s,\u201d said Michael Wright, head of MGM+. &#8220;This docuseries delivers a riveting experience with unprecedented access to one of the most notorious cases in American criminal history, offering MGM+ viewers the premium, thought-provoking storytelling they&#8217;ve come to expect from our brand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Executive producers are Eli Holzman and Aaron Saidman for The Intellectual Property Corporation, Tim Walsh and Peter LoGreco, who also directs and serves as showrunner.<\/p>\n<p>The docuseries dives into the longest criminal case trial in U.S. history, regarding the murders that gripped Los Angeles in the late 1970s, and features exclusive access to the Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be working with Michael Wright and his team again on <em>The Hillside Strangler<\/em> after our first collaboration on The Wonderland Murders, which was a great success on the platform,\u201d added Holzman and Saidman. \u201cMGM+ continues to be an ideal home for gripping true-crime sagas, and we\u2019re proud to bring audiences the chilling and controversial tale of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, crafted alongside our EP partners, Tim Walsh and EP\/director Peter LoGreco.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hillside Strangler, a four-part true-crime docuseries for MGM+, will premiere on January 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7389,"featured_media":24086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[11859,812,856,11538,11858],"class_list":["post-24087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-aaron-saidman","tag-eli-holzman","tag-mgm","tag-michael-wright","tag-the-hillside-strangler","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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