Mushroom murder trial spawns multiple TV specials
The Erin Patterson mushroom murder trial has come to an end, and the TV networks are racing to fill their broadcast schedules with all that suppressed material they’ve been obtaining over the course of the nine-week case.
Patterson was found guilty of three counts of murder, and one count of attempted murder. She is yet to be sentenced, but the guilty verdict, delivered at 2.15pm on Monday afternoon, instigated a rush of TV news specials, a documentary series, and an ABC dramatisation that promises to look at the case “from multiple perspectives.”
Last night, Nine had the very-welcome problem of having to relegate footage of a Queensland man, covered in dirt with a bullet in his brain after digging himself out of an executioner’s grave, to second on the run-sheet. In addition, Nine’s digital-only The Brief aired a half-hour special last night dedicated to the trial on 9Now.
