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‘Murdaugh Murders’ Producer The Cinemart Adapting ‘The Competition’ Podcast Into Docuseries & Working With Charlize Theron On True-Crime Doc

The Cinemart is working with Charlize Theron on a new doc and adapting The Competition podcast into a series

Last year, the company, which is also behind Hulu’s Fyre Fraud and Amazon’s LulaRich, struck an overall deal with Truly Original, the Banijay-backed producer behind The Real Housewives of Atlanta and Summer House. The audio series, which launched last year, was created and hosted by Shima Oliaee, the creator of hit podcasts including Dolly Parton’s America and Pink Card. It grew from there, to organically create this formula of being on the precipice of the golden age of documentary, where we could really entertain and grab a huge audience but also live in really hard-hitting, authentic, truthful, vulnerable subject matter.

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