A new Australian true crime series currently in production for STAN, has secured international sales in the US, UK and Europe.
The Night Caller is a new four-part original production being produced for the Nine owned streaming service Stan.
Produced by EQ Media Group and Salon Pictures, the series which is currently under production has now been sold to the Sundance Now streaming service in the US and Canada, Sky Crime in the UK and Danish broadcaster DR.
The true crime docuseries will explore the harrowing legacy of one of Australia’s deadliest serial killers: Eric Edgar Cooke, who committed a series of murders in Perth in the early 1960s.
Creator and director Thomas Meadmore heads back to his childhood home in Perth, where he spends time with those closest to Cooke and his victims, including Cooke’s wife and the two men wrongly convicted of his crimes.
Describing the series Thomas Meadmore said:
“I’ve returned to Australia, the place where I was brought up, to examine an urban legend that shaped my parents’ existence, and thus me too, in ways I hadn’t realised until I shared time with those most deeply affected by Cooke and explored how the trauma of these events still live on in these people, as well as the broader community today.”
Source – C21
