Mark Fix/ZUMA PressCBS is getting on the true crime train.
Just a day after NBC announced its scripted true crime series, sources confirm to E! News that the CBS is developing an unscripted, limited run series on the JonBenét Ramsey murder case. They are currently in final negotiations with Emmy-winning producer Tom Forman to produce the project.
CBS is planning to broadcast as early as fall of 2016, just in time for the 20-year anniversary of JonBenét's death, which occurred on December 24, 1996.
The series will reunite original investigators of the infamous case, accompanied by new experts, to re-examine the unsolved case, and the project has the potential to be a recurring limited-run series that explores a different case each season.
The body of six year-old JonBenet was found in the basement of her family's Boulder, Colorado home in December of 1996, and it was determined that she had been struck on the head and strangled. It wasn't long before the entire country was wrapped up in the murder investigation as her parents and brother were first suspected, but later exonerated. The case was reopened in 2009, but remains unsolved.
NBC's true crime series will, like The People v. O.J. Simpson, be scripted, and will be a spin-off of the Law & Order franchise called Law & Order: True Crime. It will spend its first season examining the case of the Lyle and Erik Menendez, who, in 1994, were convicted of murdering their parents.
It's clear that FX's The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story has started a trend, and we can't say we're complaining.