New to TVNZ OnDemand in December

TVNZ OnDemand is unleashing a true-crime spree.

New this weekend are miniseries about serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, football star-turned-convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez and how a woman remembered 20 years after the murder of her childhood friend that the killer was her father.

And due later this month are series about “killer cops”, Manchester’s police force, a black man accused of setting a teenager on fire, and life inside two UK prisons.

Also coming soon are the return of Swedish crime drama series Rebecka Martinsson, the bilingual Bang and, for its final season, Claws.

Aaron Hernandez Uncovered

Not even a great career as one of the best American football players, a fiancé, millions of fans, and money could stop Aaron Hernandez from walking a dark and dangerous path to destruction. Those who knew him best reveal why a multi-million dollar football player who loved his family ended up with a murder conviction.

Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks

The first televisedinterview with the man who gruesomely murdered 17 young men between 1978 and 1991.

Buried

Four-part Showtime documentary about a young mother, Eileen Franklin, who suddenly recalled witnessing the rape and murder of her best friend 20 years earlier at the hands of her father.

Killer Cops (December 18)

A New Orleans gangster cop who used extreme violence to make himself rich is suits one of the “killer cops” profiled in this 10-part 2017 series.

Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers (December 22)

2018 series about a racially-divided small town in Mississippi where black man was accused of dousing a 19-year-old in gasoline and setting her on fire.

Life Behind Bars: Visiting Hours (December 29)

Cameras focus on the visiting room at HMP Low Moss, one of Scotland’s largest maximum-security prisons, where the people doing hard time meet loved ones.

Ross Kemp Behind Bars: Inside Barlinnie (December 29)

The actor, author and TV war reporter Ross Kemp discovers what it is really like to be an inmate and how prison officers handle the violence, homemade weapons and drugs of daily life in a Glasgow prison.

The Force: Manchester (December 29)

With Greater Manchester officer numbers cut to less than 7000 and more than half a million emergency call outs, the force is facing its toughest test in years.

Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders (December 26)

Rebecka (now played by Sascha Zacharias) has moved into her grandmother’s house in Kurravaara but is still anxious about fitting in and whether she has made the right choice.

Bang (December 26)

S2 of this Welsh/English drama opens with the murder of a 30-year old man who turns out to be just the first victim in a series of fatalities linked to a historic rape accusation.

Claws (December 20)

S3 of this dark comedy ended with salon-owner Desna’s birthday and everything seeming perfect. But S4 is “going to bust open all of the skeletons in the closet and everyone is going to have to come face to face with the inevitable”.

Midnight Texas (December 15)

This 2017-18 adaptation of Charlaine (True Blood) Harris’ book series is set in a small town that’s a haven for vampires, witches, psychics, hit men, and others with extraordinary backgrounds.

TVNZ OnDemand’s also just added UK psychological thriller The Teacher, pro-wrestling drama series Heels, Starz’s small-town crime drama series Hightown, the reboot of Fantasy Island, S2 of Alex Rider, and on the branded channels: