{"id":24133,"date":"2025-11-12T10:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/new-dominion-pictures-kristen-eppley-on-the-state-of-factual-the-continued-appetite-for-true-crime\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:38:37","slug":"new-dominion-pictures-kristen-eppley-on-the-state-of-factual-the-continued-appetite-for-true-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/new-dominion-pictures-kristen-eppley-on-the-state-of-factual-the-continued-appetite-for-true-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Eppley on the Continued Appetite for True Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Dominion Pictures built its business on factual series that first aired on U.S. cable channels, such as The New Detectives<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The FBI Files<\/em>. Today, as Kristen Eppley, the company\u2019s executive VP of distribution, tells\u00a0TV Real<\/em>, these hits are satisfying a seemingly insatiable international appetite for true crime. These shows are not only finding homes across a variety of platforms, but they are also being turned into successful podcasts.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0Do I remember correctly that one of your shows served as inspiration for the hit drama\u00a0CSI<\/em>?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, that was an episode from\u00a0The New Detectives<\/em>. Anthony Zuiker [the creator of\u00a0CSI<\/em>] was always nice enough to credit us. Whenever people would ask him, \u201cWhere did you get the inspiration for the show?\u201d he would say, \u201cMy first wife was pregnant at the time, and I was outside playing basketball. She was a huge fan of\u00a0The New Detectives<\/em>\u00a0and said, \u2018You have to come in and watch this show.\u2019\u201d He did. It was about a Raiders cheerleader who went on a modeling job and was murdered. Three days later, he created\u00a0CSI<\/em>\u00a0from that.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0The New Detectives<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The FBI Files<\/em>\u00a0were among your first hits.
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, when New Dominion started, the first series they produced was\u00a0Archaeology<\/em>, and it garnered TLC its first CableACE Award. They went on to produce seasons two, three and four, but, being a young production company, it was a commission\u2014it was work-for-hire. Their second hit series was\u00a0The New Detectives<\/em>. They started with three hours in season one to see how it would do, and it took off. That was a co-production with the Discovery Channel. From there, they did\u00a0The FBI Files<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Prosecutors: In Pursuit of Justice<\/em>. Then, we branched out to Nat Geo and did\u00a0Interpol Investigates<\/em>, and we really took off.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0Starting with such quality hits, what was the strategy for growing the catalog, although you remained in non-scripted programming?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Good storytelling and staying true to our roots of nonfiction and co-producing with a variety of networks. Everything is non-scripted. Our co-production partners were Discovery (TLC, Discovery Health, Velocity aka MotorTrend and the Travel Channel) and Nat Geo. We did one show for The History Channel,\u00a0Chasing Warbirds<\/em>. Factual has always been good for us.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0While the scripted and kids\u2019 businesses have been quite challenged in the last few years, has the factual programming business been steadier?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, definitely.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0And demand for it remains constant?
\nEPPLEY:\u00a0<\/strong>It really does. Our shows have remained evergreen, especially with all the different platforms. You may watch Netflix, I may watch Amazon and another person Hulu; everybody has something different. We have our shows up on Pluto TV, Roku, Tubi and YouTube, just to name a few. We have a few YouTube channels. We work with a partner, Little Dot Studios. They\u2019ve done an amazing job creating our IP channels for us.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>And the revenues on YouTube are substantial.
\nEPPLEY:\u00a0<\/strong>Oh, yes, very much so. Little Dot Studios has done an amazing job with our franchise series,\u00a0The New Detectives<\/em>,\u00a0The FBI Files<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0A Haunting<\/em>, and with all our language versions.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0Have production costs gone up in the non-scripted world, too? Maybe not as much as scripted?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Probably not as much as scripted, maybe a little. Our last production was in 2021. AI has come a long way in the last few years, and producers are using it more and bringing the cost of reenactments down.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0What are some of the titles that are in demand?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0A Haunting<\/em>,\u00a0The FBI Files<\/em>,\u00a0The New Detectives<\/em>, along with the m2 titles\u00a0Ice Cold Killers<\/em>,\u00a0Monsters and Mysteries in America, Happily Never After<\/em>,\u00a0Wicked Attraction<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0FBI Takedowns<\/em>. Mike Sinclair was an executive producer at New Dominion Pictures. He worked on\u00a0The New Detectives<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The FBI Files<\/em>. He left and started his own company, m2 Pictures. Many of his programs were co-productions with ID and the Discovery Channel. His programs fit perfectly within our catalog.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:<\/strong>\u00a0Most linear channels in the U.S. are seeing their viewership and ad revenues decline. Are their challenges impacting your business?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Ad revenue has taken a dip across all media. It\u2019s not impacting us too much. We are seeing ad revenue on the upswing.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>The international interest in your catalog is big?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Very big, and it\u2019s driven by great storytelling and quality production. We put everything on the screen, and most of our shows are dubbed in French and Spanish. Having those languages really helps. And it\u2019s not AI dubbing, it\u2019s real dubbing, which does make a difference. I\u2019m sure there are great AI dubbing companies, but there\u2019s nothing like a human voice.<\/p>\n

TV REAL:\u00a0<\/strong>Although it\u2019s a fragmented market, are you finding opportunities?
\nEPPLEY:<\/strong>\u00a0Oh, absolutely. It\u2019s not just selling to streamers and FAST channels. For example, we had dubbed\u00a0The FBI Files<\/em> in French, and a couple of years ago, we did a deal with the French company Initial Studio, which took the French audio and created a French podcast, Les dossiers du FBI<\/em>, and it has 2 million streams to date. Because it was so successful, Little Dot Studios dubbed the TV programs in German and just launched the German podcast of\u00a0The FBI Files, FBI Files Deutschland<\/em>. It ranks among the top ten.<\/p>\n

It’s about thin slicing\u2014where can I take the content next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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