Why Matthew Shepard’s Story Was So Important For Investigation Discovery to Finally Tell, 25 Years Later
variety.comJason Sarlanis Jason Sarlanis is the president of Turner Networks, Investigation Discovery (ID) and HLN, linear and streaming.
The two-hour documentary special “The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime” airs Monday, Oct. 9, at 9 p.m. ET on ID (ahead of the 25th anniversary of Shepard’s death on Oct.
12). Last week, I was sitting in a conference room at our Warner Bros. Discovery offices in Burbank presenting a PowerPoint for an ID all-hands meeting.
As a network suit, it’s one of the “suit-ier” things I do. After recapping our third-quarter ratings momentum and reminding the team to sign up for our annual Volunteer Day, I shared a clip from our forthcoming documentary special, “The Matthew Shepard Story: An American Hate Crime.” While the two-minute clip played, any artifice of a corporate suit disappeared and I immediately reverted to being a closeted teenager in the ’90s, my eyes welling up with tears in front of my colleagues.
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