In a reported six-figure deal, Oprah Winfrey‘s OWN Network (does anyone else love how much that name suits Winfrey herself?) purchased Crime After Crime, the Yoav Patish documentary about Debbie Peagler, a woman incarcerated for over 26 years after being linked to the murder of her abusive boyfriend. Until two young real-estate attorneys took another look at her case, and decide to take on the system.
What I just wrote reads like narration for this film’s trailer. So it’s not hard to see why someone like Winfrey would be intrigued, a fan of underdog stories that uplift her viewers. This is the second doc OWN has acquired, the first being Becoming Chaz, the Chastity Bono-to-Chaz Bono (a.k.a. Cher’s son) gender transition doc.
Crime After Crime will receive DVD distribution under Winfrey’s OWN Docu Club. These are big steps to what promises (or has been promising again and again) to be what Oxygen could have been. [Deadline]
What do you think of OWN? Did you see Crime After Crime? Will you now?