EXCLUSIVE: The shocking murder of model Rachel Nickell, and the bungled police investigations that followed, continue to be an endless source of fascination for TV producers.
Deadline understands that both Netflix and Amazon Prime Video have lined up documentaries on Nickell, the British woman who was stabbed to death on Wimbledon Common, south-west London, in July 1992.
Netflix has greenlit an original documentary from Blast! Films, the Sky Studios-owned production company behind Nat Geo’s Tsunami: Race Against Time. Netflix declined to comment.
Production has been underway for many months on the three-part series, which has the working title Wimbledon Common. Netflix is expected to mix documentary storytelling with dramatized elements as it examines Nickell’s murder and police failures in catching her killer Robert Napper.
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Meanwhile, Amazon Prime Video has acquired the UK rights to The Wimbledon Killer,
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