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ID’s Natalia Grace Doc & Lifetime’s Gypsy Rose Blanchard Series Were The “Barbenheimer Of True-Crime”, Says WBD True-Crime Chief


Investigation Discovery’s The Curious Case Of Natalia Grace and Lifetime’s The Prison Confessions Of Gypsy Rose Blanchard both opened with stellar ratings, highlighting the continued success of tru…

Sarlanis, President, TBS, TNT, truTV, ID & HLN for Linear & Streaming at WBD, said, “What [Lifetime] was able to do with Gypsy Rose and we had with Natalia Grace was like our own little Barbenheimer of true-crime happening. Sarlanis was speaking at Realscreen in New Orleans on a panel alongside Lifetime’s SVP, Original Programming Brie Miranda Bryant as well as Scout Production cofounder David Collins, WME Partner and agent Ryan McNeily and Susie Jones, head of factual at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series reached 9.8M viewers across linear and digital platforms, according to Lifetime, which said it was the network’s best new nonfiction performance in two years, since the release of its Janet Jackson documentary.

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