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Dan Abrams’ Law&Crime partners with Mar Vista Entertainment

Legal and true crime network Law&Crime announces it has newly partnered with LA-based production company, Mar Vista Entertainment, by providing critical trial access and research services for their scripted feature film development. This partnership signals a larger initiative on Law&Crime’s behalf to expand its presence as the go-to trial consultant, as well as plans to […]

January 8, 2024

Law&Crime debuts The Lineup YouTube series

Legal and true crime network Law&Crime has announced the premiere of its newest YouTube series, The Lineup. Featuring wild, never-before-seen crime fighting moments, The Lineup is for the network’s fans of signature, crime-in-action content. The show will be released weekly, beginning June 18th, and offer viewers a fresh take on even more moments of outrageous […]

June 16, 2023

Law&Crime Network announces cable distribution deal with NCTC

Legal and true crime network, Law&Crime, has announced an agreement with the National Content & Technology Cooperative (NCTC), which will make the network available to approximately 700 NCTC member cable and broadband operators, and their viewers. The new agreement, which runs through 2026, allows all members to provide Law&Crime’s live trial network and also its […]

May 3, 2023

Peacock adds new episodes of Prime Crime

Ten new episodes of Prime Crime are now available to watch on-deman via Peacock. The true crime series, produced by Law&Crime Productions, is hosted and executive produced by attorney and Law & Crime anchor Jesse Weber. This series continues to take a deep dive into high-profile crime and courtroom stories, such as the televised trial […]

August 10, 2022

Law&Crime sees record YouTube viewership for Depp vs Heard

Law&Crime, the live trial and true crime network, set its YouTube viewership record with more than 3.5 million live concurrent viewers during its coverage of the verdict in the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard defamation trial. Court TV logged less than 2 per cent of that viewership with around 63,000 live concurrent viewers. Since the […]

June 2, 2022

discovery+ UK commissions more Johnny vs Amber

Warner Bros Discovery UK has announced three new commissions for discovery+ as part of its ‘vs’ format launched in December 2021 with Johnny vs Amber: a two-part documentary which explored Depp’s defamation trial in the UK High Court with explosive evidence, intimate personal archive and in-depth interviews from both legal teams. Following the success of […]

May 31, 2022

Law&Crime sees record viewership for Depp vs Heard

Live trial and true crime network Law&Crime has reporting a record-breaking number of viewers tuning in across its platforms to watch coverage of the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard trial. To date, the network has seen more than 330 million viewers and the trial is expected to last another few weeks. Live coverage of the […]

May 3, 2022

Court TV to stream Depp vs Heard trial

Court TV, the digital broadcast network known for its ‘gavel-to-gavel’ coverage of high-profile trials, is to carry the Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard court case which is set to commence on April 11th. “Court cases that are as high-profile as this one often create a lot of noise, and it can be difficult for viewers […]

April 7, 2022By Chris Forrester

discovery+ orders Johnny Depp & Amber Heard doc

Discovery has announced the commission of Johnny vs Amber, a two-episode documentary that tells the story of the breakdown of their relationship and how it became the celebrity court case of the decade. This double bill produced by Optomen tells this international cover story from two polarised perspectives. Depp’s film will portray that he found […]

November 19, 2021