Also on the Sky documentaries slate, part of a wider unveiling of 125 original series, films and docs, is the first project from Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions that won’t feature the cult documentarian in front of the camera.
The Bambers: Murder at the Farm (working title) examines the tragic murder of a family at a secluded English farmhouse in 1985. The three-part true-crime series uses first-hand testimony and unseen archive footage to reflect on the events and the conviction of Jeremy Bamber, who was brother to murdered mother Sheila Caffell.
Theroux, who executive produces alongside Arron Fellows, said: “A big part of wanting to start a production company a little over a year ago was to make programs that I don’t appear in… It’s a story that’s socially important, with a powerfully compelling narrative, and the intention is to tell it in a way that is both sensitive and creatively ambitious.”
It will be the usual hatchet job, Jackie. From the Bamber blog spot on 30th April earlier this year- copy pasted below;
When Mindhouse contacted us with a view to making a documentary on the evidence of Jeremy's innocence, we were obviously interested.
Having done some brief preliminary work with them on a potential project, we were then advised by industry contacts that Mindhouse had somehow obtained crime scene photographs of the bodies of the deceased at the scene, which we understood were to be used unethically on screen in their series. Information we received also made clear that the programme would not be about the case evidence proving Jeremy’s innocence, and that it would have a very different nature to that presented to us by Mindhouse.
Police officers have disseminated distressing photographs of the deceased Bamber family to third parties, when they had no authority to do so, and the unauthorised distribution of these photographs was and still is, the subject of a criminal investigation. This placed us in a very difficult position in pursuing a criminal complaint, while at the same time, potentially working with those who had received illegally distributed images.
Mindhouse never gave us a satisfactory response to this, or to other serious concerns we had, and as a result, we terminated our involvement with them on the 20th of November 2020.
Mindhouse were not privy to the 10th of March 2021 submissions to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), and any attempt by the programme makers to suggest they are working with the campaign, Jeremy Bamber, his legal team, or the CCRC is wholly inaccurate.
Posted 30th April by Jeremy Bamber
