Sky, Fifth Season and Lightbox are combining on a premium documentary series telling the extraordinary story of a group of young women from across the globe who join forces to bring down a predatory Italian policeman.
Based on the hit podcast, Verified, Bad Host: Hunting the Couchsurfing Predator is being produced in association with Scripps. Produced by Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox, the project will be one of Fifth Season’s flagship projects at Mipcom Cannes.
Bad Host tells the Tinder Swindler-esque story of how a group of remarkable young women, unbeknownst to each other, were all victims of a predator who lured them to stay with him using Couchsurfing, a website where travellers can find trustworthy hosts to put them up in their homes for free. Tracing each other through the internet, the young women united and battled for six years, often in the face of indifference in their home countries,...
Based on the hit podcast, Verified, Bad Host: Hunting the Couchsurfing Predator is being produced in association with Scripps. Produced by Simon and Jonathan Chinn’s Lightbox, the project will be one of Fifth Season’s flagship projects at Mipcom Cannes.
Bad Host tells the Tinder Swindler-esque story of how a group of remarkable young women, unbeknownst to each other, were all victims of a predator who lured them to stay with him using Couchsurfing, a website where travellers can find trustworthy hosts to put them up in their homes for free. Tracing each other through the internet, the young women united and battled for six years, often in the face of indifference in their home countries,...
- 9/28/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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