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Oxygen remains on a true-crime spree. The cable network said today that it has ordered one new series, Exhumed, and specials The Jane Doe Murders and The Case Died With Her and renewed Injustice with Nancy Grace for Season 2. Read details of the shows below. Each episode of Exhumed, whose producers include spouses…

Panels at today’s TCA included both Paris Hilton (here to open up about her untitled YouTube doc) and Kim Kardashian West, taking the stage for Oxygen's Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project. Was this perhaps virtual candy store for reality TV fans? At least for West, the focus was far from the highly public…

Nancy Grace plans to tackle crime and injustice with her new Oxygen series Injustice with Nancy Grace. Each episode of the true crime series will expose wrongful accusations, botched investigations, suppressed evidence, unclear motives and unjust sentences, according to Oxygen’s description of the show. Grace says she…

Oxygen has given a green light to Killer Motive, a new eight-episode true-crime series from the producers of NBC’s Dateline. Hosted by NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk and Emmy-winning journalist Troy Roberts, each hourlong episode will uncover dark and twisted motives — from vengeance to jealousy to greed — that…

As the true-crime genre continues to assault the airwaves, Oxygen Media today announced nearly a dozen series projects that embrace the genre. The NBCUniversal-owned cable channel has greenlighted a half-dozen projects featuring the likes of Kim Kardashian, Nancy Grace and Kate snow and put five others in development…

Oxygen Media has picked up new seasons of reality series Cold Justice and Criminal Confessions from executive producer Dick Wolf. Both series are in pre-production and are set to return in 2018. "Cold Justice and Criminal Confessions have resonated with our audience as they share a common passion in seeing the journey…

Oxygen Media is further expanding its footprint in the true-crime genre, adding ten new original series to its programming slate, in addition to the U.S. premiere of a Piers Morgan event series. Serial Killer with Piers Morgan will feature Morgan going into some of the most dangerous maximum security prisons in the…

Oxygen has handed SVP stripes to a pair of its executives. The NBCUniversal-owned cable net has promoted Samantha Bloom to SVP Consumer Marketing & Promotion Strategy and Nancy Mazzei to SVP Creative & Brand Strategy. The news went out in an internal memo from Ellen Stone, EVP Marketing at Bravo and Oxygen…

EXCLUSIVE: USA Network and sibling Oxygen Media have closed a deal with Universal Television and Wolf Entertainment for the off-network rights of Dick Wolf’s NBC police drama series Chicago P.D.  The series, which launches its fifth season on NBC next week, will begin airing in October on both networks, with episodes…

Oxygen Media will complete its transformation into a crime-themed cable network this summer when it will be officially rebranded as a crime destination network for women with an all-crime programming slate. Ramping up that lineup, the network has ordered two new series: Cold Justice — a new season of the reality…

Ever since its launch, NBCUniversal’s Oxygen has struggled with identity as just another female-focused cable network among a slew of others, including Lifetime, Bravo, E! and WEtv. It finally might have found its identity in crime programming, which has done surprisingly well. Oxygen’s Crime Time primetime block…

Two sisters featured on Oxygen’s confrontational reality show Bad Girls Club have filed a lawsuit against the show’s producers and several cast members over a prank that escalated to violence and later aired on the show. Naming production companies Bunim/Murray Productions (spelled”Bunin/Murray” in the filing), Atrium…