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Exclusive: Neighborhood Watch, the New York-based production company behind titles like Cannes prize winner Blue Ruin and the Netflix docuseries Killer Sally, has brought in Dal Wolf to serve as Managing Director and Executive Producer.

Other new additions to the roster, who will create projects under the banner, include filmmakers Fatal Farm, Sergio Cilli, and Adam Bricker.

Best known for helping to launch commercial production company Gifted Youth alongside the team at Funny or Die, Wolf comes to Neighborhood Watch after overseeing numerous Fortune 100 company campaigns. Notable past projects in the commercial space include Fatal Farm’s “Apologize the Rainbow” for Skittles and Pepsi’s “Test Drive 1 & 2,” among many others.

Stated Wolf on his hiring, “Joining the team with Traci [Carlson] and Rich [Peete] has already been rewarding. As soon as we met we recognized our shared values and approach. They are also a team that, like myself, started from the ground...

Gigi Pritzker’s entertainment company Madison Wells and veteran doc maker Nanette Burstein have signed a co-production deal to develop premium unscripted projects together.

The two-year agreement will see Burstein, a director, producer and writer best known for the Oscar nominated On The Ropes film, develop documentaries and docuseries with backing from Madison Wells.

“I am thrilled to be partnering with longtime collaborators, Madison Wells, on this new venture. Documentary filmmaking is the love of my life. It is high time I formed my own company to produce not only my own work but support new, up and coming talent in this burgeoning field,” Burstein said in a statement on Tuesday.

Longtime unscripted producer and network exec Lesley Goldman will oversee development across projects that will aim to spotlight pressing issues facing women today.

“We have a long-standing relationship with Nanette and her interests align with our own: telling stories...

Sally McNeil was arrested in the late 90s for the murder of her husband, Ray McNeil. Netflix’s Killer Sally worked to explore how the media and authorities portrayed Sally as a female bodybuilder whose recollection of the murder was improbable. But the true crime docuseries relies heavily on Ray’s physical abuse of her and her children. Killer Sally explores the abuse and why John Jr. Lowden said one specific thing to her mother after her arrest for the murder.

Sally McNeil, mother of John Jr. Lowden in ‘Killer Sally’ | via Netflix Ray McNeil started to hurt Sally after their marriage

Sally was still a Marine when she met Ray through a friend. He was also a bodybuilder and former Marine. But Sally called it “lust at first sight ” instead of love at first sight.” His muscles and physique enamored her. The two fell in love, and Sally fell even harder.

Netflix’s Killer Sally three-part true crime series explores Sally McNeil’s side of her husband’s murder and the public’s perception of her during the trials. She claimed shooting her husband was in self-defense, and Ray McNeil had a history of violence and abuse toward her. Killer Sally dives into her defense team using “Battered Woman Syndrome” as a leading factor. But during that time and due to Sally’s image, the jury thought otherwise.

Sally McNeil before the murder from ‘Killer Sally’ | via Netflix What led to Sally’s ‘Battered Woman Syndrome’ in ‘Killer Sally’?

Sally was a Marine when she first met Ray McNeil, also a former Marine. Ray became interested in her when an acquaintance showed him a photo of her. At the time, Sally had developed a love for bodybuilding and competed. For Sally, it was “lust at first sight,” as Ray was also a bodybuilder.

Netflix’s Killer Sally dived into the nitty gritty details leading up to the murder and how a Marine and amateur bodybuilder first met Ray McNeil. Sally McNeil was a prolific murder case due to her and her husband’s image as professional bodybuilders. Involved in the murder case were Sally’s two children, and Killer Sally revealed how they both got involved in the military.

John Jr. Lowden in ‘Killer Sally’ | via Netflix Sally McNeil joined the Marines after running out of money

Killer Sally shares with audiences the backstory of Sally’s life before the tragic murder of her husband, Ray McNeil. Before getting involved in professional bodybuilding, she was a Marine. After her third year of college, Saran ran out of money and decided to enlist like her brother and uncle. During her time with the United States Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, she became a Sergeant.

Netflix’s Mindhunter explored the inner working of real-life serial killers and their minds. But as the series progressed into its second season, Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) get involved in a series of kidnappings and murders of young black boys in Atlanta. While Mindhunter Season 2 ended with the supposed perpetrator of the crimes, there was a loose end of another serial killer connected to the Atlanta murders.

Holden learns there is more to the Atlanta murders in ‘Mindhunter’ Season 2

While in Atlanta, Holden is coerced into listening to a series of kidnappings of young black boys in the neighborhood. While many are missing persons, many of them have ended up murdered. He learns from one of the detectives who used to be in charge that they could not find a link between the victims.

The Behavioral Science Unit soon takes up the case as Holden...

Netflix’s Killer Sally docuseries explored the true crime story of Sally McNeil. On Valentine’s Day, the Marine and bodybuilder fatally shot her husband, Ray McNeil, after years of abuse. The case gained national attention due to Sally and Ray’s bodybuilding careers. Sally served 19-to-life for the murder. But her story in Killer Sally is not the only murder crime committed by a bodybuilder.

Bodybuilder and Marine Sally McNeil in ‘Killer Sally’ | via Netflix Sally’s crime in ‘Killer Sally’ does not compare to bodybuilder Gordon Kimbrough’s murder case

In 1993, news hit of a professional bodybuilder committing a horrific murder. According to a New York Times article, Gordon Kimbrough was “a chemical machine.” He used various steroids and drugs to reach a perfectly built physique. Kimbrough and his then-girlfriend Kristy Ramsey were well-known in San Francisco for their bodybuilding careers.

Their relationship was rocky as Kimbrough had affairs and physically abused Ramsey.

Netflix’s true crime docuseries Killer Sally explores the story behind a Valentine’s Day murder of a bodybuilder victim and his bodybuilder wife. Sally McNeil was a Marine who fell in love with the world of bodybuilding, leading to her second marriage to Ray McNeil. But their marriage was more than rocky, with physical abuse, drug use, an affair, and murder. Killer Sally explored Ray’s affair with Marianne, but where is she now years later?

Photo of Ray McNeil from ‘Killer Sally’ | via Netflix Ray met Marianne at the gym according to ‘Killer Sally’

As the Netflix series Killer Sally documents Sally’s relationship with Ray, it soon dives into the broken facets of their marriage and an affair. While in love with Ray, Sally worked double time to make money to provide for her two children, and Ray’s steroid use got competitive bodybuilding. No longer a...

Manifest topped Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals for a second straight week since the release of its final season (Part 1) — though the Queen is closing in.

For the week of Nov. 7, Netflix’s Manifest amassed 2.3 billion viewing minutes across 52 total episodes, up 67 week-to-week. With the release of its fifth season, Netflix’s The Crown tallied a hair over 2.1 billion minutes across 50 total episodes, to place a close second.

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Manifest topped Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals with the release of the first half of its final season.

The NBC-turned-Netflix drama amassed nearly 1.4 billion minutes viewed across its 52-episode library during the week of Oct. 31, followed by Netflix’s Love Is Blind (up two spots with 1.2 billion minutes viewed/38 total episodes).

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The fourth season of Manifest returned the NBC-turned-Netflix show to the top of the streaming charts. The drama did not, however, have as much viewing time as it did in previous times on the rankings.

Manifest drew 1.37 billion minutes of viewing time for its 52 episodes the week of Oct. 31 to Nov. 6; the first half of its fourth season (and first as a Netflix original) premiered Nov. 4. That was good enough to take the No. 1 overall spot over Love Is Blind, which had 1.22 billion minutes.

Manifest has now crossed the billion-minute mark nine times in Nielsen’s streaming rankings, with the first coming in June 2021 — just before NBC canceled the series after three seasons. It stayed above 1 billion minutes for much of that summer, peaking at almost 2.5 billion for the week of June 14-20, 2021.

While it’s safe to say the debut...

“Manifest” made a triumphant return on Netflix.

Season 4 of the drama opened on Netflix’s Top 10 at the No. 1 spot after its Nov. 4 release. During the Oct. 31-Nov. 6 viewing window, the series scored 57.1 million hours viewed in its first three days of availability. The show’s premiere season also returned to the TV rankings in 10th place in light of the new season.

“Enola Holmes 2” also had a big debut on the streamer. The movie opened on top of the film chart with 64 million hours viewed in its first three days of availability. Starring Millie Bobby Brown, the follow up film picks up with the young detective who, after solving her first case, embarks on another mystery to find a missing girl in her first true role as a detective-for-hire.

BBC drama “Inside Man” premiered in the second slot on the list. The Stanley Tucci-led four episode series...

Manifest is proving to be an asset for Netflix. The sci-fi drama debuted the first half its fourth and final season on the streamer on Friday, easily making its way to the No. 1 spot on last week’s Top 10 list.

The first 10 episodes of the final installment, which was ordered at Netflix after NBC cancelled the series, racked up about 57.1M hours viewed in their first three days on the service. Manifest Season 1 also made its way to No. 10 with 20.3M hours viewed as audiences prepared for the new season to drop.

There’s no word yet on when the second half of Season 4 will land on the streamer.

Steven Moffat’s four-episode series Inside Man also debuted on Netflix last week after first airing on BBC One in September. The David Tennant and Stanley Tucci led series about an American death row prisoner who helps a British journalist search...

After a successful month of true crime content thanks to the Ryan Murphy double feature of Dahmer and The Watcher, Netflix is digging back in to the documentary and docuseries world with its list of new releases for November 2022.

The true-crime-a-palooza begins on Nov. 2 with the release of Killer Sally. That will be followed by docuseries like Pepsi, Where’s My Jet on Nov. 17 and documentaries like State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith on Nov. 10 and I Am Vanessa Guillen on Nov. 17. Of course, Netflix’s Original department is turning out some heavy hitting scripted series as well. The long-awaited Manifest season 4 part 1 arrives on Nov. 4. Arriving on Nov. 23 is the Tim Burton-directed Addams Family spinoff Wednesday. That will feature the titular young character as she investigates a murder spree at Nevermore Academy.

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Netflix is on a bit of a true crime heater at the moment. Thanks to the Ryan Murphy double feature of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story and The Watcher, Netflix was the go-to place for true crime nerds last month. But what does the streamer have on deck to keep the good times rolling in November 2022? Quite a lot as it turns out actually.

Netflix’s true crime division will machine to churn out content this November It starts early with the release of Killer Sally on Nov. 2 and goes all the way through to Take Your Pills: Xanax on Nov. 30. As that last example makes clear, true crime doesn’t always have to be about murder (though it so often is). In fact, this months’ Netflix true crime offerings are fairly diverse in subject matter. Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? on Nov. 17 is all about a corporate promotional giveaway gone wrong,...