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Dun dun! You know that that sound means: it’s another series from grand emperor of crime TV Dick Wolf. This time, Wolf has ditched the stories-adapted-from headlines model in favor of something even more authentic: true crime. The title of the new series is “Blood & Money,” and it airs Tuesday, March 7 on CNBC. It’s an all-new unscripted series features real stories, real people and real investigations of greed and murder, told through Wolf’s unique lens. You can watch Blood & Money: Season 1 and CNBC with a subscription to Sling TV. You can also watch with Directv Stream, Hulu Live TV, fuboTV, or YouTube TV.

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If you’re a fan of true crime and Law & Order, this new docuseries from Dick Wolf, Wolf Entertainment, and Alfred Street Industries is right up your alley. Blood & Money takes real stories, real people, and real investigations of greed and murder and tells them through Wolf’s unique lens, utilizing signature Law & Order franchise elements. Each episode spotlights the detectives and prosecutors as they follow the money and pursue justice. Financial scandals that ended in bloodshed covered include billionaire Robert Durst, the Menendez brothers, notorious mother-son grifters Sante and Kenneth Kimes Jr., and con artist “Clark Rockefeller.” TV Insider spoke exclusively with executive producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz to get the scoop on this new docuseries, premiering March 7 on CNBC and March 11 on Oxygen. How did the concept of the show come about, specifically focusing on murders motivated by greed? And the title is perfect. Jane...

Exclusive: CNBC is building its own Dick Wolf block after ordering a new true-crime docuseries from the Law & Order creator.

The network has commissioned Blood & Money, a series that is produced by Wolf Entertainment, Universal Television Alternative Studio and Alfred Street Industries.

The series is a ripped from the headlines unscripted series that features real stories, real people and real investigations of greed and murder, told through Wolf’s lens.

Featuring a narrator and the iconic “Dun-Dun that Wolf often employs in his scripted series, the ten-part series spotlights the detectives and prosecutors as they follow the money and pursue justice. It explores the stories of the most infamous financial scandals that ended in bloodshed including billionaire Robert Durst, the Menendez brothers, notorious mother-son grifters Sante and Kenneth Kimes Jr. and con artist Clark Rockefeller.

The series will launch on March 7 at 10pm, after a new episode of Wolf’s own Cold Justice.

Natalie Morales will be a correspondent for CBS News, with duties that will include the true crime series 48 Hours.

Morales continues to co-host The Talk.

She joined CBS last year after 22 years at NBC News. She had served as the west coast anchor of Today, correspondent on Dateline. She also had a tenure as host of Access, co-host of Access Live and news anchor of Today, as well as co-hosting the show’s third hour. She also was anchor of Reelz’s Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales. She joined Today in 2006 as a national correspondent, and reported across the network.

Neeraj Khemlani, the president of CBS News and Stations, said in a statement that Morales “knows how to get to the heart of a tough story with compassion and grace.” Morales noted that 48 Hours “pioneered true crime television and I’m looking forward to working with the...

“The Favourite” director Yorgos Lanthimos is set to direct and executive produce a limited series for Searchlight Television based on Mark Seal’s nonfiction book “The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Imposter.” The adaptation will center around the man known as Clark Rockefeller, who posed as a member of the famed family as part of a decades-long con game that came crashing down in 2008 after he kidnapped his daughter (Via Deadline).

Rockefeller, whose real name is Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, moved to the Us from his native Germany in the 1970s, used a variety of aliases — film student, English royalty, and as a member of the American industrialist dynasty. It was under that false identity that he married his wife, who before long began to suspect her husband is not who he says he is.

In addition to the custodial kidnapping conviction,...

Exclusive: The Favourite and The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos is set to direct and executive produce an adaptation of The Man In The Rockefeller Suit based on Mark Seal’s New York Times bestselling non-fiction book, which is being developed as a limited series at Searchlight Television. Donald De Line and Element Pictures will exec produce with Lanthimos.

Written by David Gilbert, based on the book The Man In The Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor, the limited series adaptation tells the true story of Clark Rockefeller, a gregarious, successful, and mysterious descendant of the Rockefeller clan. When his wife Sandra begins to suspect that Clark isn’t who he says he is, his decades-long web of deception slowly begins to unravel.

This reunites Fox Searchlight and Lanthimos following their collaboration on The Favourite, which earlier this year was nominated for 10 Oscars, including best picture and director for Lanthimos,...

Sheldon Turner and Jennifer Klein and their Vendetta Productions are staying at 20th Century Fox Television. The duo have inked a two-year overall deal with 20th TV and its cable/digital division, Fox 21 TV Studios. Under the new pact, Turner and Klein will continue to develop new projects for network, cable and streaming services.

“Sheldon and Jen are gifted producers with smart, commercial instincts and they are brimming with ideas,” said 20th TV president of creative affairs Jonnie Davis. “We love working with them.”

Added Bert Salke, president of Fox 21 TV Studios, “Sheldon is a fantastic writer and he and Jen have been developing with Fox 21 since the early days of our company. I have known both of them forever, and was excited to continue our relationship.”

Vendetta moved to 20th TV two years ago after a three-year stint at Sony TV. One of the projects they developed and...