New Teaser and First-Look Images Released from Impactful Six-Episode Documentary Series
Exposing Injustice in Small-Town Homicide Cases
NEW YORK – JANUARY 9, 2026 – AMC Networks revealed a first-look teaser and premiere date for the Hilarie Burton-Morgan (One Tree Hill, The Walking Dead)-hosted documentary series True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here, which returns Thursday, February 19 at 10pm ET/PT on SundanceTV and streaming across AMC+ and All Reality.
The new six-episode season examines the challenges and complexities of small-town justice, spotlighting cases that range from unsolved missing persons and wrongful convictions, to death while in police custody. Led by advocate and actress Burton-Morgan, the series travels to Pennsylvania, Texas, Indiana, Oklahoma and Kentucky, in powerful pursuit of accountability and justice for victims. By speaking directly with the family members of those involved with the cases, as well as community members, local journalists and legal experts, the series continues its work revealing systemic flaws within the criminal justice system and encourages viewers to lend their voices to those who have been silenced.
“True Crime Story” has had an immediate impact and driven real results since its premiere in fall of 2021. The series has visited small towns all over the country and helped the wrongfully convicted regain their freedom, prompted new witnesses and insiders to come forward, and sparked meaningful legal action in cases that were otherwise stalled. The series set the tone with its first episode which focused on the Georgia state conviction of Devonia Inman, who was in the twenty-third year of a life sentence. DNA evidence supporting his innocence had been available and ignored for over a decade. Shortly after the airing of It Couldn’t Happen Here, his conviction was vacated as the result of an effort spearheaded by the Georgia Innocence Project and the engagement that the series was able to provide across the show’s social media and press opportunities. Mr. Inman walked free in December 2021 to spend Christmas with his family.
Produced by Bungalow Media + Entertainment, True Crime Story: It Couldn’t Happen Here, a SundanceTV Original Series, is executive produced by Burton-Morgan, Robert Friedman, Dan Flaherty, who also serves as director, Mike Powers, Liz Yale Marsh, Liz DeCesare and Meg Mortimer.
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About Bungalow Media + Entertainment, LLC
Founded in 2013 by CEO Robert Friedman, Bungalow Media + Entertainment is an Emmy Award-winning and Grammy-nominated integrated entertainment company that develops, produces and distributes content across all media platforms. Bungalow’s recently produced projects include 13 Days in Ferguson (CBS/Paramount+), Little Richard: I Am Everything (CNN Films/Max), Serving the Hamptons (Max),Vegas: The Story of Sin City (CNN), Cyber Sleuths: The Idaho Murders (Paramount+), the mini-series Surviving Jeffrey Epstein (Lifetime) and The Preppy Murder (AMC/Sundance). Current projects include the on-going series It Couldn’t Happen Here with Hilarie Burton-Morgan, as well as documentaries Blades of Gold, about the 2002 Paralympic Sled Hockey team and We Met at Grossinger’s. Bungalow has also produced the feature documentaries including, Spring Broke (Showtime), and We the People: The Market Basket Effect.