Dick Wolf Gets In Business With Netflix, Launches ‘Homicide’ True-Crime Docuseries Franchise

Netflix is adding content from another TV titan to its roster of originals. Homicide: New York, a true-crime docuseries from Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, is set to debut on the streamer on March 20. It will be followed by Homicide: Los Angeles later this year. Both installments consist of five episodes each.

Homicide, from Wolf Entertainment and Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz’s Alfred Street Industries, tells the stories of a city’s most notorious murder cases by following the detectives and prosecutors who cracked them.

The project predates Wolf’s current massive deal with UnHere is a iversal Television (signed in 2020 and extended in 2023 through 2027), which includes a first-look agreement with Universal Television Alternative Studio for unscripted/docu-series.

Homicide is executive produced by Wolf, Tom Thayer, the head of the non-scripted arm of Wolf Entertainment who was instrumental in getting the project together, Lipsitz, Cutforth, Nan Strait, Dan Volpe and Adam Kassen.

Here is a trailer for Homicide: New York. You can see first-look images below.

This marks Wolf Entertainment’s first series for Netflix, the company’s first streaming docuseries and second streaming series overall, joining the upcoming Amazon Freevee half-hour drama On Call.

Wolf is the king of broadcast procedurals with nine current series spanning three franchises, the Chicago and Law & Order franchises on NBC and the FBI dramas on CBS.

On the unscripted side, Wolf Entertainment has done several series with Universal Television Alternative Studio, including CNBC and Oxygen’s Blood & Money, Oxygen’s Prosecuting Evil with Kelly Siegler and NBC’s LA Fire & Rescue.

The company has strong tradition in true crime with a slew of docuseries, including Prosecuting Evil, Cold Justice, Criminal Confessions and Murder for Hire on Oxygen and BTK: Confessions of a Serial Killer on A&E.

Wolf Entertainment has released two scripted drama podcasts, Hunted and Dark Woods; the latter is being developed as a scripted series with Universal Television.

Additionally, Wolf’s credits also include Oscar-winning short documentary Twin Towers and Grammy-winning documentary The Doors: When You’re Strange, both of which he produced with Wolf Entertainment’s Peter Jankowski.

Here are first-look images from Homicide: New York: