Keshet International (KI), Woodcut International and the Seven Network are launching a FAST channel dedicated to true crime content on 7plus before the end of this year.
Titled True Crime Files, the FAST channel sees KI licensing and delivering nearly 100 hours of true crime content to 7plus.
Launching in December, this initial launch package of factual content includes true crime content produced predominantly by Woodcut Media, a UK-based true crime documentary producers, including the latest two seasons of World’s Most Evil Killers (S8 & S9: 40x60’), alongside Jo Frost on Killer Kids (4x60’, produced with Nanny Jo Productions), and Murdered in the Line of Duty (3x60’) – titles already represented by KI.
KI has also completed a separate representation deal with Woodcut International for an additional slate of true crime content for 7plus’ True Crime Files that includes: Surviving a Serial Killer (S1 & S2: 14x60’), How I Caught the Killer (S2: 10x60’), The Killer Within (10x60’), and one-off documentaries Knox: The Rob Knox Story (1x60’), Frankie Fraser’s Last Stand (1x60’), The Krays by Fred Dinenage (1 x 60’), and The Richardsons by Fred Dinenage (1 x 60’).
KI has further licensed two high-profile British true crime documentaries handpicked from its factual catalogue: Top Hat Productions’ Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret (2x60’), and Flicker Productions’ Wayne Couzens: Killer in Plain Sight (1x60’).
With a lineup of more than 50 FAST channels, Seven’s 7plus has grown its audience by 29% this year.
Seven Network's director distribution and content partnerships, Richard Henson, said the network is seeing tremendous engagement across its suite of FAST channels with streamed FAST minutes up 84% year-on-year.
"Mono-thematic, single IP, and sports content are all resonating with our 7plus audience," he said.
"We’re thrilled to be working with Keshet International on this volume of exceptional true-crime content produced by Woodcut Media and look forward to launching the True Crime Files FAST channel.”
KI’s MD of distribution Kelly Wright said Australia’s VOD services and FAST channels are surging in popularity right now.
"This deal has opened the door for us to represent more of Woodcut’s fantastic true crime content with a view to exploiting other VOD and FAST channel opportunities across Asia-Pacific in the future," she said.
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