Former Manitowoc County Sheriff's Detective Andrew Colborn filed a lawsuit Monday against Netflix and Making a Murderer filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos claiming that the docuseries defamed him. In the lawsuit filed today in Wisconsin Circuit Court (read it here), Colborn says that the docuseries was edited…

“I have one goal — and that is to overturn the conviction of Steven Avery,” says attorney Kathleen Zellner in the new trailer for the second installment of Netflix’s Emmy Award-winning docuseries Making A Murderer.  The second chapter of the series digs deeper into Avery’s case which became a cultural phenomenon when…

Netflix has set October 19 for the global premiere of Emmy-winning docuseries Making a Murderer Part 2. The anticipated second chapter continues to chronicle the unprecedented journey of Steven Avery from DNA exoneree and reformer to convicted murderer. Filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos return to the Midwest…

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of Netflix’s Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey. No explanation was given for the decision. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in Wisconsin for his alleged participation in the 2005 death of 25-year-old photographer Teresa Halbach; his uncle…

A Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix Making a Murderer series will stay in prison after a federal appeals court overturned a ruling that could have freed him. Brendan Dassey had claimed that he was tricked into confessing that he helped his uncle rape and kill photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005. However, the…

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago has ruled that Brendan Dassey, one of two men convicted of the murder profiled in the Netflix docuseries Making A Murderer, should be released from prison after affirming a lower court ruling that his confession was coerced. Dassey was sentenced to live in prison in 2007 in…

The Weinstein Co., after shepherding one of reality TV’s first breakout series, Project Runway, along with several successful theatrical documentaries, now wants to move deeper into fact-based TV content. "A lot of our films started as true stories," noted David Glasser, the company’s COO, during a Sunday panel at the…

O.J.: Made in America continued it early awards run tonight, scoring the Best Feature prize at the 32nd annual IDA Documentary Awards. Picked up a total of four trophies including Best Limited Series (Making a Murder), Best Episodic Series (Last Chance U), Best Short (The White Helmet) and the ABC News VideoSource…

A U.S. Magistrate Judge in Wisconsin has ordered Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey released from federal prison while prosecutors appeal his overturned conviction. Judge William Duffin today ordered Dassey released with multiple conditions as court proceedings continue. Dassey, one of two men whose murder…

Making a Murderer‘s Steven Avery and his  brand-new fiancée Lynn Hartman will speak out on syndicated talk show Dr. Phil (hosted by Dr. Phillip McGraw) in episodes airing Monday, October 3 and Tuesday, October 4. Avery, profiled in Netflix’s Making A Murderer documentary, was convicted in 2007 for the murder of…

UPDATED with all winners, 7:12 PM: Netflix’s docuseries Making a Murderer and Fox’s live musical event Grease Live each scored four trophies to lead the second of two Creative Arts Emmy Award ceremonies. A&E’s Cartel Land scooped three statuettes and HBO’s Last Week Tonight and Adult Swim’s wrapped series Childrens Hos…

UPDATED: Hugely popular Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer converted 4 of its 6 Emmy nominations on Sunday. It swept the top 3 nonfiction categories, winning for best documentary or nonfiction series, best writing and best directing for nonfiction program, and also took home best picture editing for…