• Event documentary from the Emmy award-winning team behind the smash hits Framing Britney Spears, Controlling Britney Spears and Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson
  • New global broadcast partners for the series include Bell Canada, Australia’s Nine Network, AMC Networks International and TVNZ

LONDON. 15 June, 2022: Red Arrow Studios International has inked key international deals for its latest event documentary Elon Musk’s Crash Course (1 x 75’) – a blistering exposé of Tesla chief executive, and the divisive putative new owner of Twitter: Elon Musk, which premiered on FX and Hulu in the US in May. New global broadcast partners for the show include Bell Canada, Australia’s Nine Network, AMC Networks International for Spain and Portugal, New Zealand’s public broadcaster TVNZ and Israel’s yes channel.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has claimed since 2015 that, for Tesla, technology for self-driving cars is a “solved problem,” and made outlandish claims about Autopilot capabilities. But a New York Times investigation reveals the quixotic nature of Musk’s pursuit of self-driving technology, and the tragic results. Autopilot has been a factor in several deaths and dozens of other accidents that Tesla has not publicly acknowledged. Some former Tesla employees speak out against Musk for promoting a self-driving program that they believe was perilous.

Tim Gerhartz, President & Managing Director at Red Arrow Studios International, said: “In an era of Silicon Valley messiahs and a blurring line between corporate ambition and deliberate public misinformation – the work that investigative journalists like The New York Times’ Cade Metz and Neal Boudette are doing is of paramount importance. The hype around the Autopilot technology cannot mask the lives it has cost, and we are glad to have global partners of the highest calibre to broadcast this searing and thoughtfully constructed documentary.”

Elon Musk’s Crash Course is part of Red Arrow’s The Weekly: Special Edition, a collection of premium standalone documentaries, produced by the New York Times and Left/Right, a Red Arrow Studios company. Other titles in the collection include ‘Framing Britney Spears’ and ‘Malfunction: The Dressing Down of Janet Jackson’. The collection is branded as The New York Times Presents in the US.

Red Arrow Studios International also holds international distribution rights to sister show ‘The Weekly’ (30 x 27’), which won four News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 2020.

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NOTES FOR EDITORS:

About Red Arrow Studios International

Red Arrow Studios International is a world-leading TV distributor of scripted, formats and factual shows from a global network of in-house production companies, outstanding third-party producers and digital-content partners.

With offices in Munich, London and Los Angeles, Red Arrow Studios International co-produces and finances global entertainment, and distributes acclaimed content to over 200 territories worldwide.

Red Arrow Studios International is part of Red Arrow Studios, which is comprised of an acclaimed network of international production companies and labels in seven territories, as well as digital studio, Studio71. Red Arrow Studios is a ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE company, one of Europe’s leading media groups.

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