When a TV drama begins with a female body, battered and dumped, the heart sinks. This has been the template for far too many, and the predominance of the “true crime” fetishism has made it worse. In ...

The six-part series looks at a string of sexual assaults in northern France in the late 1980s, the perpetrator of which was only caught over 30 years later. By Lily Ford The BBC has acquired French ...

The BBC has acquired Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, a French crime thriller based on true events, for BBC iPlayer and TV channels, from Federation Studios. Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, the Oscar-winning ...

The BBC has picked up Jean-Xavier de Lestrade‘s TV thriller Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, which was titled Samber in France. A wealth of other broadcasters including Spain’s Movistar and Portugal’s Nos ...

French true crime broke barriers this year when the non-fiction miniseries “Unsuspected” premiered at Series Mania. Such a showcase is rare for a factual program, but then, “Unsuspected” is a no ...

Supported in no small part by European sales, France emerged as the third largest audiovisual producer for the international TV market last year, claiming a 7.3% market share and standing behind the U ...

Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime tells the story of how a sex criminal went undetected in France for decades. The miniseries comes from filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, who will be best known to most ...

The story of one road, countless victims, and a perpetrator unpunished for 30 years The BBC has acquired Sambre – Anatomy of a Crime, a French crime thriller based on true events, for BBC iPlayer and ...

"Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime" (Courtesy of What's Up Films) France was the world’s third largest TV producer in the global TV market last year, claiming a 7.3% market share, placed behind the U.S.