Peacock is developing a limited series about Thomas Randolph called “The Thing About Tommy,” sources tell Variety.
In April, Randolph was sentenced to at least sixty years in prison for the murder of his wife and the man he hired to kill her. This was not his first conviction or his first deceased wife, however; Randolph is also known as Black Widower for having been married six times, with four of his wives ending up dead, though he maintains his innocence.
The true crime series will be written by Bruce Marshall Romans, who has previously written and produced on “Shantaram” on Apple TV+, “Deputy” on Fox and “Messiah” and “Marvel’s The Punisher” on Netflix.
Romans serves as executive producer alongside Jason Blum, Chris Dickie and Jeremy Gold for Blumhouse and Liz Cole for NBC News Studios. Universal Content Productions is the studio.
“The Thing About Tommy” comes after NBC’s 2022 limited series “The Thing About Pam,” which starred Renée Zellweger as Pam Hupp in a telling of her involvement in the murder of Betsy Faria in 2011. The series is based on reporting that originally aired on NBC’s “Dateline” and takes its title from a podcast “Dateline” released. The cast of the limited series also included Katy Mixon as Faria as well as Josh Duhamel, Judy Greer, Gideon Adlon, Sean Bridgers, Suanne Spoke, Mac Brandt, Glenn Fleshler and Olivia Luccardi.
“Dateline” has also done previous reporting on Randolph.
Deadline was first to report on the development of “The Thing About Tommy.”
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