The CW Buys Taylor Swift Documentary

EXCLUSIVE: British broadcaster Channel 4 made a documentary about Taylor Swift earlier this yr and it’ll now air within the U.S.

The CW has picked up Taylor, which comes from director Man King and Sandpaper Movies, the corporate behind Netflix’s A Lethal American Marriage.

The Nexstar-owned broadcaster will air the one-off doc on Saturday December 13 at 8pm.

Taylor explores the musician’s 20-year profession, a interval that has seen her transcend the realm of pop star to develop into a cultural icon. Via interviews with high-profile commentators, business insiders and followers, the documentary examines the forces which have formed her trajectory and the devoted group she conjures up. Channel 4 stated it incorporates “uncommon archive” that may reveal recent insights into Swift and her story, because the sequence charts her journey from bold teen with towering desires to some of the influential and scrutinized figures of our time. 

King beforehand directed BBC’s Bombing Brighton and Channel 4’s The Fall: Skydive Homicide Plot.

The doc is produced by Jessica Brady and archive producer Lina Caicedo and exec produced by Sandpaper’s Susannah Value and Henry Singer. Blue Ant oversees worldwide gross sales.

Sandpaper’s Susannah Value instructed Deadline earlier this yr that the corporate needed to method standard topics with an investigative contact.

“We’ve a strand of sensible documentaries about well-known individuals which can be analytical, actually impartial, not made with the movie star, and never biopics,” she stated. “We try to say one thing about how they match into society in an even bigger world and with Taylor it was unattainable to disregard how she had develop into this megastar in the beginning of the Eras Tour. Channel 4 have been instrumental in coming to us and saying, ‘We predict you possibly can do one thing actually unique on this that’s intelligent and considerate’.”