Sphere Abacus has secured a deal with Prime Video in the U.K. and Ireland for Britain’s TikTok Murder, produced by Phoenix Television and Born This Way Media in association with TPC.
The show is part of a multi-title true-crime programming deal with Prime Video in the U.K. and Ireland brokered by Will Stapley, global content director at Sphere Abacus. The two-hour film tells the story of the murder of Stuart Crocker and how suspicion quickly landed on his much younger girlfriend, a TikTok personality named Winter Swan Miller.
“We have built relationships with a wide group of indies throughout the world and are delighted to be working with the U.K.’s Phoenix Television, creators of compelling factual content,” Stapley said. “Britain’s TikTok Murder is a haunting story of manipulation, online performance, coercive control and violence hidden behind social media fame which will strongly appeal to Prime Video’s UK and Irish subscribers.”
Jaimi West, co-founder of Phoenix Television, commented, “Britain’s TikTok Murder tells the story of the tragic death of Stuart Crocker, exploring the events that led to his murder and the aftermath that followed. At its heart is the story of a man whose life was cut short, while examining the role that social media, vulnerability and manipulation played in a case that had a profound impact on his family, friends and the wider community.”
Max Barber, Born This Way Media’s creative director and producer on the series, added, “As a company, we are always sourcing unique access and stories that need a voice or revealing a new viewpoint. The other elements that compelled me to make the film were the topical themes combined with a warped obsession with social media fame that became a factor in such a senseless killing. Not to mention the sheer, eye-popping volume of TikTok material we had of our perpetrator. Britain’s TikTok Murder is urgently told through the viewpoints of the journalists who covered the case, an ex-army friend of the victim, not to mention the family who take us on this disturbing, but at times touching, inquiry into the life and death of Stuart Crocker. But, of course, his untimely end was only the beginning of where this story went….”
