BBC Three launches Life And Death Row: Love Triangle
BBC Three’s thought-provoking British documentary Life And Death Row is set to launch Life And Death Row: Love Triangle, its first serialised documentary made exclusively for digital audiences.
Published: 7 April 2016
BBC Three is helping us to re-imagine and re-invent what we can do in TV Production. We are thinking outside the box.
Life And Death Row: Love Triangle tells the story of Heather, a beautiful young wife and mother, lured to a horrific death. Her adulterous husband, Joshua, and his pregnant lover, Emilia, are brought in for questioning. One Murder. Two suspects. Which one is telling truth?
All films in the BAFTA-winning series to date have been a traditional 60 minutes. Love Triangle, the fourth story in the new series, will be told over the course of one week through eight short-form films* and made available alongside a range of supporting evidence including real-life witness statements, police recordings and photo galleries.
Told through the perspectives of the protagonists, and alongside the supporting documents, each film allows audiences to delve into the case like never before, enabling them to explore the lies, secrets and double crosses for themselves in unparalleled detail.
Two episodes will be made available daily from bbc.co.uk/three at 11am and 4pm from Monday 25 April.
This week-long investigation aims to spark conversation, and BBC Three’s social accounts will get involved to uncover the mystery, with extensive content across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Showcasing episode clips and teasers, BBC Three social will interact directly with fans, feeding the fire of speculation while always keeping people guessing. Audiences can follow the hashtag #LifeAndDeathRow to be part of the conversation.
Damian Kavanagh, Controller of BBC Three, says: “Innovating with new ways of telling stories is what BBC Three is all about. We’re platform neutral, which means we can use whatever is most appropriate to tell the story best. Imagine being able to listen to Serial and see the crime scene photographs or watch Making A Murderer and read the witness statements. That’s what we’ve done with Love Triangle and our new format Unsolved.”
Will Saunders, Creative Director of, Digital BBC TV Production, says: “LADR: Love Triangle is an exciting collaboration between our Documentary and Digital Storytelling Teams in Factual Production. It follows hot on the heels of our #findthegirl campaign we produced alongside our recent drama Thirteen. BBC Three is helping us to re-imagine and re-invent what we can do in TV Production. We are thinking outside the box.”
Francine Shaw, Director and Producer, says: “Having previously directed long-form documentaries, Love Triangle presented a fresh and exciting opportunity to make a Life And Death Row story in a short-form series - a form which naturally lends itself to the twists and turns of a police investigation. Making it online only was liberating as the content dictates the length of the story, and we could include as many scenes as needed to do it justice. The story world we created around the episodes gives the audience a much more direct connection with the characters and events, as they can choose to explore it in more detail if they want to.”
Life And Death Row: Love Triangle reaches its conclusion on Thursday 28 April and will remain available for late-comers at bbc.co.uk/three alongside all the extra evidence.
All eight short-form films will also be available on BBC iPlayer from Friday 29 April.
Note to Editors
Life and Death Row tells the story of capital punishment through the eyes of young people whose lives have been shaped by it. With unprecedented access inside prison walls, it discovers what it's like to live with the threat of the death chamber, as well as hearing from victims and their families, and the family of those on death row - some praying for execution, some hoping for a reprieve. Each episode focuses on different aspects of the system: execution, punishment and the complex nature of ‘truth’.
*each film is approximately 10 minutes long.
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