Sandpaper responsible for Death in Paris (w/t) four-parter
Channel 4 and Discovery+ are joining forces to co-produce a Sandpaper Films documentary examining Princess Diana’s death.
Investigating Diana: Death in Paris (w/t) is a four-part series that promises to tell the full stories of two separate police investigations into the tragic accident, the first by the French Brigade Criminelle in 1997 and the second by the Metropolitan police in 2004.
The series will feature interviews with detectives involved in the investigations who are speaking for the first time, and how they grappled to separate fact from fiction in determining the cause of the car crash that killed Diana. The series will also delve into the public’s insatiable demand for answers, which led to the early proliferation of online chatrooms and how the ‘real cause’ of her death became one of the earliest online conspiracy theories.
The series was commissioned for C4 by head of specialist factual Shaminder Nahal. It is exec produced by Sandpaper’s Henry Singer and Susannah Price alongside Emma Tutty and Danielle Peck, with Natacha Brounais and Miriam Jones producing. Will Jessop and Barnaby Pell will helm the doc.
Sandpaper previously produced the 2017 BBC doc Diana, 7 Days to mark the twentieth anniversary of her death, as well as Sathnam Sanghera’s Empireland for C4 last year.
“This utterly compelling series explores in forensic detail what happened in the investigations following the death of Princess Diana - what it was like for the detectives working on a huge global news story that was not just a tragedy for the families involved, but a massive internet phenomenon too,” said Nahal.
Singer added: “This was a really important series to make — not only because we hope it will lay to rest the conspiracy theories that continue to obscure the truth of what happened in the Alma tunnel that night — but because the story is a window into the world today, where conspiracy theories are no longer reside in the dark corners of the internet but have gone mainstream and are actually pushed by people in positions of real power.”
C4’s documentary is set to air later this month after Sky Documentaries’ Lightbox single,The Princess.
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