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Tonia Haddix, the woman at the center of the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary series “Chimp Crazy,” has been sentenced to 46 months in prison after faking the death of a chimpanzee to avoid turning him over to authorities as ordered.

She pled guilty to two felony counts of perjury and one felony count of obstruction of justice.

“Chimp Crazy,” which aired for four episodes on HBO starting in Aug. 2024, was directed by Eric Goode, one of the directors of Netflix’s Covid-era sensation “Tiger King.” The series follows Haddix, who lied to the animal rights organization PETA and legal authorities about the whereabouts of a chimpanzee, Tonka.

“Chimp Crazy” lays out Haddix’s ownership of the Missouri Primate Foundation, a facility in Festus, Missouri, less than an hour outside St. Louis. The Mpf, amid a lawsuit with PETA over the alleged abuse of the chimpanzees, was ordered to turn the animals over to an animal sanctuary.

Tonia Haddix, the main subject of HBO’s 2024 docuseries “Chimp Crazy,” was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison on Thursday, according to local St. Louis outlet Fox 2. She was convicted of two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice during an investigation into the alleged death of her celebrity pet chimpanzee, Tonka.

As the HBO series recounts, Haddix owned a chimpanzee compound in Festus, Missouri, where she rented out the apes for special events, birthday parties, television commercials and movies. In 2020, one of her chimps escaped, leading to accusations regarding her treatment of the animals. Animal rights activist group PETA soon stepped in, obtaining a court order to remove the animals from Haddix’s care and into a more suitable ape sanctuary.

Haddix resisted the order for years, but when federal officials eventually came to collect the apes, she claimed that one of her chimpanzees, Tonka, had died before their arrival.

Three years after Tonia Haddix was caught faking the death of her beloved chimpanzee Tonka in a wacky, short-sighted bid to stop the ape from being taken away to a sanctuary, officials raided her Missouri home again to discover the exotic animal broker was secretly stowing another adult chimpanzee in her basement.

It’s the latest plot twist in Haddix’s bitter, years-long fight against PETA, which has now landed her in jail. Officials arrested the 55-year-old on Saturday after a Missouri judge held her in contempt of court for...

Documentary filmmaker Eric Goode knows how to captivate an audience. From the breakout success of Tiger King to his latest HBO docuseries, Chimp Crazy, his work combines fascinating characters with a focus on wildlife and animal welfare issues.

Chimp Crazy, Goode's four-part docuseries centering on "monkey mom" Tonia Haddix, originally set out to advocate against the ownership of primates but took an unexpected turn. "I never knew this woman would kidnap a chimpanzee," he tells Gold Derby.

Goode wants his work to transcend entertainment and spark conversations about wildlife conservation and ethical treatment of animals. "Many documentaries that are very clearly advocacy documentaries, like The Cove or Blackfish, oftentimes they're great, but oftentimes they preach to the converted and have a very narrow, small audience," he says. "We want to preach to the unconverted as well. And so the only way to do that is to really make these documentaries entertaining,...

The four-episode saga Chimp Crazy, which in August became HBO’s most watched docuseries since 2020’s McMillions, follows Tonia Haddix, a fiercely spray-tanned Missouri animal broker who has pled guilty to multiple felony charges related to the well-being of her pet chimpanzee Tonka. By the end of the series, director Eric Goode had informed PETA that Haddix was planning to euthanize Tonka to avoid legal retribution, after which the primate was relocated to a chimp sanctuary.

Initially, Haddix was furious with Goode. He’d enlisted a proxy director while shooting some of Chimp Crazy to avoid outing himself as one of the engines behind the similar Netflix megahit Tiger King, whose principal subject, Joe Exotic, is serving a 21-year prison sentence. But Haddix also relished the attention she got from Goode’s cameras, eventually befriending him. Since August, he has counseled her to stop selling baby primates to people unprepared...

Amid the crowded, contentious field for Best Documentary or Nonfiction Special one project has emerged as the early favorite: HBO's Pee-wee as Himself, a poignant tribute to Paul Reubens, the ingenious and enigmatic mind behind Pee-wee Herman. Blending an in-depth look at Reubens' personal journey with the offbeat humor and charm that made his iconic character a pop-culture phenomenon, the documentary looks poised to win over Emmy voters.

"He wanted people to believe that Pee-wee Herman was a real person," director Matt Wolf tells Gold Derby. "But on a deeper level, Paul was deeply protective of his privacy and anonymity." Herman became a household name through Tim Burton's debut film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and the groundbreaking Saturday morning kids' show Pee-wee's Playhouse. But Reubens faced public backlash after his 1991 arrest for indecent exposure in an adult theater, which led to years of retreat from the public eye. In...

Panels for shows like ‘House of the Dragon’ and others are launching on Max as it prepares its campaign to sway Emmy voters.

Last year, Max tried a unique tactic in order to win over more Emmy voters over: the platform made its For Your Consideration panels available for subscribers to stream on the service. Several shows on Max won big at the 2024 Emmy Awards, and the panels may have helped to sway some minds. That would explain why Warner Bros. Discovery is bringing back those panels in 2025, as announced on Tuesday.

Key Details: Available now: Max’s For Your Consideration panels are available as of Tuesday, June 3. Access galore: The panels offer access to talent both in front of and behind the camera. Best of the best: Panels for “Dune: Prophecy,” “The Pitt,” and more are available. Sign Up $9.99+ / month max via prime video

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The star of the HBO docuseries Chimp Crazy pleaded guilty to perjury and obstruction of justice after she tearfully testified under oath that her beloved pet chimpanzee Tonka had died — when in reality, the primate was sitting in her basement.

Tonia Haddix could face up to 20 years in prison and $500,000 in fines for the three felony counts. Her sentencing is scheduled for July 16 and firecracker Haddix was warned by U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark against making any more colorful remarks about the case in the interim.

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We’ve gotten a lot of werewolf movies over the decades and while some of them have been great, it still feels like we should have more great ones to turn to whenever we’re in the mood to watch some lycanthropic action. Lionsgate will be giving a new werewolf movie called Shadow of the Wolf a Digital and VOD release on March 25th, and while we’ll have to wait and see whether or not this one makes its way onto the list of great werewolf movies, we do know that it has a special ingredient none of the other greats have had: the Highlander himself, Christopher Lambert, is in the cast! You can see Lambert and a preview of some of the werewolf action in the trailer embedded above.

Directed by Alberto Gelpi (La mia seconda volta) from a screenplay by Viviana Panfili and Alessandro Riccardi, Shadow of the Wolf...

The 110-year-old Ojai Playhouse, a movie theater darkened for the past decade, has been revived by music industry impresario David Berger. He bought the historic property, which debuted in the silent era, after selling his VIP concert ticketing company to WME in 2018 and moving to industry-favored Ojai. Berger has since invested more than $10 million into turning the theater into a state-of-the-art venue.

Other high-profile Hollywood figures with homes in the area — including Universal Studios head Donna Langley and Eric Goode, the Tiger King and Chimp Crazy documentarian who’s developing the boutique El Roblar Hotel across the street — had also looked into purchasing the Playhouse. “I grew up as a ticket-taker and usher and concessionaire and, later, a projectionist at theaters just outside of Boston,” he says. “So, for me, this was meant to be.”

Berger’s iteration of the 200-seat Playhouse will blend first-run studio films, art house offerings,...

Netflix star Joe Exotic of Tiger King fame recently spoke out about his time in prison. The reality TV personality also shared his hope to get an early release date. In addition, he shared what it was like for him behind bars.

Joe Exotic Is Currently Doing Time In Forth Worth, Texas

Joe Exotic, also known as Joseph Maldonado-Passage, Joseph Allen Schreibvogel, and “The Tiger King,” is a media personality who ran the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, also known as “Tiger King Park.”

For many, however, Exotic’s biggest claim to fame is the Netflix documentary series, Tiger King. In particular, many viewers turned in and watched his feud with Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin.

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However, Exotic is currently doing time at the Federal Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. He had been incarcerated for an alleged murder-for-hire plot against Baskin.

Exotic recently spoke with...

Do you remember, in Chimp Crazy, how the real director Eric Goode wasn’t trusted by his subjects because he made Tiger King, so they had to have Dwayne Cunningham step in as a proxy director to get the film made? Well, there is a similar yet extremely different situation...

Jane Pauley anchors this edition of CBS News Sunday Morning, which airs on September 29, 2024, from 9:00 to 10:30 Am Et on the CBS Television Network and streams on Paramount+. The program features a diverse range of segments, including: – Pet Project: Luke Burbank is in conversation with “Tiger King” filmmaker Eric Goode about […]

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Jeff Buckley’s former house in Memphis will soon be available to rent on Airbnb.

As reported by Commercial Appeal, real estate agent and concert booker David Lorrison and developer Eric Goode purchased the house for $143,800 in March. Ever since, the two have been working on restoring the Midtown property to list on Airbnb for Buckley enthusiasts to enjoy.

“I want this to be in homage to him, but not like a hipster’s Graceland,” Lorrison explained. “Nobody in Memphis was paying attention to the house… But when you look online, you see people are coming here from all over. They drive for miles to make videos of the house and trace Jeff’s steps in Memphis.”

According to Lorrison, the house had been unoccupied for approximately a year before they purchased it, growing moldy without gas, water, or electricity.

As for the two developers’ plans, they hope to revive...

Jeff Buckley’s last home in Memphis, Tennessee is being remodeled and turned into an Airbnb by developers, the Commercial Appeal reports.

Goode Development purchased the house at 93 North Rembert Street in March for $143,800; the house is still being repaired and restored, but it’s expected to be ready by November. It does not appear that the Buckley family or estate is involved with the project. It’s being spearheaded by developer Eric Goode and real estate agent David Lorrison, both of whom also have connections to the Memphis music...

Chimp Crazy is a four-part docuseries that debuted on Max in August 2024. Cut from the same bizarre cloth as Netflix's Tiger King, Chimp Crazy chronicles exotic animal caretaker Tonia Haddix, a former nurse who looks after seven chimpanzees at the Missouri Primate Foundation. As Tonia works with other "chimp moms" to give the primates a better, more comfortable life in captivity, one beloved specimen named Tonka goes missing and prompts a frantic search.

Once Tonka goes missing and Tonia leads the search for his whereabouts, a legal skirmish over the potential dangers of the chimp interacting with the public shifts the documentary into a moral debate involving People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Although the four-part docuseries provides a few answers about where Tonka is today, new information has come to light that should make viewers rest easily.

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Tonia Haddix says she never wanted the limelight.

Small monkeys screech in the background as the exotic animal broker tells Rolling Stone that she’s frustrated by the whole media circus that has descended upon her life after being the “unwitting” star of HBO’s latest docuseries Chimp Crazy.

“I don’t want this crap, I just want to be normal,” Haddix says. When reminded that most wouldn’t consider running a small petting zoo, bottle-feeding capuchin monkeys and housing baby wallabies and a host of other animals typical, Haddix laughs.

Eric Goode has struck again with a misfit, bonkers exotic animal owner story! The director of the Netflix lockdown phenomenon Tiger King, which felt like the only thing on television during that time, has spotlighted a new story about a woman who will do anything to keep PETA from taking away her beloved chimpanzee, Tonka. The new Max show, Chimp Crazy, details the story of Tonia Haddix, a lover of chimpanzees and exotic animals who has been involved in a battle to keep her precious animals under her care at the Missouri Primate Foundation. In 2017, PETA sued the foundation over poor and restrictive conditions, and Haddix was named in the lawsuit.

[This story contains spoilers from the third episode of Chimp Crazy, “Head Shot.”]

Tiger King documentarian Eric Goode’s intense, sordid follow-up Chimp Crazy has been unfolding on HBO over the past couple of weeks. It centers on the fraught dynamic between exotic animal broker Tonia Haddix, the retired Hollywood chimp Tonka she claims to love more than her own children, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the activist group that has pursued a lengthy legal effort to have the primate sent to an approved sanctuary.

In the penultimate episode, which aired Sept. 1, viewers learned that Haddix, who’d previously claimed Tonka had died (she’d provided evidence that he’d been cremated), was keeping her “humanzee” hidden in her Missouri basement. “Do we turn her in?” Goode wonders, on camera, “Or do we continue following the story?”

Haddix appears increasingly anxious as the chimp-hunt heats up. Actor Alan Cumming, an animal rights activist who starred...

Some of HBO’s latest documentary and drama programs have attracted growing viewership numbers. The new documentary series Chimp Crazy, directed by Tiger King filmmaker Eric Goode, pulled in over 2.3 million total viewers for its premiere episode across HBO platforms. This viewership tops any HBO documentary in the past four years.

Chimp Crazy’s second episode drew 350,000 viewers on its first night airing on August 25. This continued interest from the debut suggests the series engages audiences. Fellow documentary The Jinx Part 2 had around 2 million viewers for its premiere over a similar period, indicating Chimp Crazy resonates similarly.

The strong performance of Chimp Crazy also benefits its lead-in drama series Industry. The current third season of Industry set a new high for the show with 370,000 total viewers for its most recent episode. This viewership growth matters for a series now several seasons in, as distribution often levels off. Industry saw a...

HBO’s Chimp Crazy is looking like it will be the outlet’s most watched documentary series in several years.

The show, from Tiger King director Eric Goode, isn’t drawing The Last of Us-level (or even Curb Your Enthusiasm-level) audience numbers. But Chimp Crazy is on pace to be the biggest docuseries at HBO since McMillions in early 2020. Chimp Crazy’s Sunday night lead-in, Industry, has also posted its best numbers to date early in its third season.

The second episode of Chimp Crazy on Aug. 25 drew 350,000 first-night viewers on HBO and Max. The show’s premiere episode, meanwhile, has grown to 2.3 million viewers across platforms over a week, putting it on pace to outdraw any HBO doc series in the past four-plus years. Chimp Crazy’s premiere is running a little ahead of another recent high-profile docuseries on the channel: The first episode of The Jinx Part 2 delivered...

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HBO’s buzzy “Chimp Crazy” has become the premium network’s most-watched docuseries in four years, behind 2020 series “McMillions.”

The series, which premiered Aug. 18, debuted its second episode this Sunday to an audience of 350,000 viewers across HBO, Max and other viewing platforms, according to internal Warner Bros. Discovery viewing figures. In just its second week, its series premiere has tallied up 2.3 million cross platform viewers.

“Chimp Crazy” hails from director Eric Goode, who also served as a director on Netflix’s “Tiger King,” which became a streaming sensation in 2020.

Prior to the debut of “Chimp Crazy” Episode 2 at 10 p.m. Et/Pt, “Industry” also made a splash with the third episode of its Season 3, which scored 370,000 cross platform viewers as it aired at 9 p.m. Et/Pt. Season 3 Episode...

A new HBO documentary series has fans asking what happened to Tonka the Chimp after being the focus of Eric Goode's Chimp Crazy. 

The four-part doc started its run on HBO and Max on August 18 and will last four weeks before ending in early September. 

It centers on Tonia Maddix, a real-life animal broker who takes in an ape named Tonka. However, her love for the charismatic ape quickly gets swept up in a complicated web involving various animal rights groups and the question of what animals are ethically ready to be house pets. 

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The filmmakers behind Netflix’s pandemic sensation “Tiger King” have returned to tell another story of domesticated animals. This time, Tonia Haddix and her 32-year-old former Hollywood chimp Tonka lead Eric Goode’s docuseries, “Chimp Crazy.”

As seen in the HBO docuseries, Haddix’s love for animals may have stretched too far. After entering into the shady market of wild animal pets, animal rights groups like PETA caught wind of her handlings and the self-proclaimed “Dolly Parton of chimps” found herself in a sticky legal battle.

While similar to “Tiger King” in themes of illegal animal ownership by quirky leading characters, Goode pivots from the leering gaze at its subjects to one of productivity. Tonka’s former “Buddy” costar Alan Cumming is heavily featured in the docuseries, often intervening as a middleman between animal rights groups and owners like Haddix.

The four-part series from Goode will reveal the implications of private primate ownership,...

During the early days of lockdown, as the world adjusted to a new normal, millions became enthralled by “Tiger King”, Netflix’s stranger-than-fiction docuseries about big cat loving oddballs and the surreal dramas they found themselves embroiled in. It was the first mega-hit of Covid-era entertainment, and almost immediately inspired legions of discourse pertaining to its questionable ethics and leering gaze towards its eccentric ensemble. The questions the series raised about journalistic responsibility have clearly weighed on the mind of “Tiger King” director Eric Goode, and with his latest dive into the world of humans who own rare animals, HBO’s “Chimp Crazy”, he seems keen to learn from the mistakes of the past.

It’s not hard to see what drew Goode to this story. From the moment we’re introduced to Tonia Haddix, the woman at the center of the narrative, it’s clear that she had the...

The creators of “Tiger King” are back with a wild new docuseries. This time, filmmaker Eric Goode focuses on a different species in the animal kingdom. “Chimp Crazy” follows Tonia Haddix, who cares for chimpanzees in captivity. You can watch the first episode of “Chimp Crazy” on Max on Sunday, Aug. 18 with a Subscription to Max.

How to Watch ‘Chimp Crazy’ When: Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024 Where: Max Stream: Watch with a Subscription to Max. About ‘Chimp Crazy’

“Chimp Crazy” dives into the wild and true story of Tonia Haddix, an exotic animal broker. Her story begins with her caring for seven chimps at the Missouri Primate Foundation. She is at risk of losing custody of her chimps, who she refers to as her children. Her story is told through four episodes and features many twists and turns. Animal rights activists get involved after a Hollywood chimp goes missing, which sends criticism Haddix’s way.

Have you ever wanted to adopt a chimpanzee as a pet? Did you know some Americans actually do keep chimps at home? HBO’s new docuseries Chimp Crazy takes viewers into this unusual world through the story of Tonia Haddix.

Tonia runs a chimpanzee sanctuary in Missouri, where she cares deeply for the primates in her care. She sees them more as family than as animals. But her exceptionally close bond with a former movie star chimp named Tonka raises questions about proper treatment and living conditions. That’s when the animal rights group PETA gets involved, and a battle ensues.

Directed by Eric Goode, the same filmmaker behind the wildly popular Netflix show Tiger King, Chimp Crazy aims to explore the issues around private chimp ownership. It follows Tonia’s unusual lifestyle and her legal fight against PETA over the fate of her chimpanzees. Along the way, we meet...

The Tiger King may have been dethroned, with a new docuseries from HBO telling another bonkers story about owning potentially dangerous exotic animals debuting with a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Titled Chimp Crazy, the four-part series comes courtesy of Eric Goode, the director behind Netflixs pop culture phenomenon Tiger King, and tells the story of former nurse-turned-exotic animal broker Tonia Haddix, who spends her days caring for animals in captivity. However, her limitless love for one chimpanzee in particular spins into a wild cat-and-mouse game with authorities and an animal rights group...

The series sounds just as intriguing as the bizarre tale of Joe Exotic, and the first reviews for Chimp Crazy have hailed it as the next must watch series surrounding the outlandish world of exotic animal owners and, in this case, so-called chimp moms. Margaret Lyons of The New York Times found Chimp Crazy to be an improvement on the Tiger King.

Honestly, your guess is as good as mine why this summer has been so littered with monkeys and apes, going back to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in May, stretching through the second season of Hulu’s Hit-Monkey and into the August rush of Apple TV+’s Bad Monkey, Netflix’s Secret Lives of Orangutans and now HBO’s Chimp Crazy.

Is there a sense that we’re on the brink of postapocalyptic decay and we’re prepping for new simian overlords? Did the protracted anxiety of last summer’s dual entertainment industry strikes leave creatives feeling generally dehumanized? Or is it less specific and more general? Are monkeys just too cute for words and do we just want to get squishy with their adorable little almost-human faces and dress them up in cute outfits and take them out to the grocery store in strollers and make one...

Binge has released a first look at the upcoming four-part documentary series “Chimp Crazy,” produced and directed by filmmaker Eric Goode of “Tiger King” fame. The series offers an insight into the world of chimpanzee ownership and the relationships that develop. The story centres on Tonia Haddix, a former nurse turned exotic animal broker, who […]

Chimp Crazy: Binge Releases First Look at New Doco Series from the director of “Tiger King”...

There is a new documentary coming from the director of Tiger King. As with the earlier Netflix movie, Chimp Crazy sees filmmaker Eric Goode once again reportedly lie and deceive people to get a shocking documentary feature out of it. This time, it is about a woman named Tonia Haddix, who owned a chimp named Tonka.

Here is what you need to know about the woman nicknamed the “Dolly Parton of chimps.”

Tiger King Director Brings Max Chimp Crazy

Eric Goode was one of the Tiger King directors and the person that Carole Baskin accused of deceiving her for the purpose of that documentary. While Goode said she knew it was more than just a documentary about Tiger King, she claims he made her think that was all it was about.

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Now, Goode is back with another documentary about someone else keeping an exotic animal as a pet.

For his follow-up to “Tiger King,” documentary filmmaker Eric Goode is returning to the wild world of exotic animal trading and the strange human characters who populate it.

“Chimp Crazy” is a four-part docuseries that will premiere Aug. 18 on HBO and Max. HBO released a trailer on Tuesday. It tells the story of Tonia Haddix, a nurse-turned-exotic animal broker from Missouri, and Tonka, a 32-year-old retired Hollywood chimpanzee who comes under her care. Haddix, an eccentric woman who refers to herself as “the Dolly Parton of chimps,” loves Tonka more than her children, and will do anything to protect him and her other chimps from people who want to take them away from her. When Tonka goes missing, things get really crazy. PETA gets involved, and so does Alan Cumming, who starred with Tonka in the 1997 film “Buddy.” As the truth about Tonka comes to light, so does a whole...

The HBO Original four-part documentary series Chimp Crazy, produced and directed by filmmaker Eric Goode (Tiger King), will debut on Sunday, August 18 (10:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Et/Pt) on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. New episodes will debut on subsequent Sundays at the same time.

Former nurse-turned-exotic animal broker Tonia Haddix, who refers to herself as the “Dolly Parton of chimps,” spends her days caring for animals in captivity. However, her limitless love for one chimpanzee in particular spins into a wild cat-and-mouse game with authorities and an animal rights group.

Tonka and Tonia Haddix

Through Tonia’s and other “chimp mom” experiences, Chimp Crazy reveals the singular bonds that form between owners and their highly intelligent great ape pets. The series exposes the risks humans take when they try to raise these animals as members of their family and the risks to...

2Nd Update: The sequel series to Tiger King has been on Netflix for almost a month now, and today Carole Baskin’s lawsuit against the streamer and others over the Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode directed franchise is over.

Having failed to get a desired injunction to block the November 17 launch of Tiger King 2 and facing a summery judgment motion, Big Cat Rescue founder Baskin and her husband Howard have dropped their contact lawsuit over the series.

In a one-page filing in federal court Wednesday, the Baskins gave “notice of their voluntary dismissal of this action.” Within hours of the dismissal from the plaintiffs, Tampa-based Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington officially tossed the messy matter “without prejudice” – which means it’s over …unlike Joe Exotic’s prison stint.

1St Update, Nov 1, 11:55 Pm: Netflix won’t have to worry about Carole Baskin and her just filed contract lawsuit pulling...

“Tiger King” once roared on Netflix. Now, the docuseries franchise about exotic animal collectors can barely muster a squeak.

“Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story” is the latest chapter in the ongoing, unbelievable saga of big cats and their suspect, and sometimes criminal, owners. Much like Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin, Bhagavan “Doc” Antle was an eccentric star — though some would use that term loosely — and private zoo owner in the original “Tiger King.” The new, three-episode miniseries digs deeper into his past and alleges several incidents of sexual abuse and violence against former romantic partners and colleagues. However, this spinoff fails to stir up nearly as much bing-worthy excitement or as many jaw-dropping revelations as the first “Tiger King” (nor its lackluster follow-up released just three weeks ago).

Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the directors of both previous “Tiger King” series, shot extra footage and sit-down interviews with people...

A new chapter in Netflix’s “Tiger King” saga is coming next week.

A three-part documentary about private zoo operator Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, titled “Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story,” is set to premiere on the streamer Dec. 10. Directed by “Tiger King” and “Tiger King 2” documentarians Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode, the series will further dive into Antle’s mysterious past and “lifelong abuses of power,” according to the announcement.

“A lifelong showman, Doc Antle has built his various careers on theatrics, attracting a slew of admirers along the way,” a synopsis of the documentary reads. “But beneath the eccentric, animal-loving facade lies a predator far more dangerous than his beloved big cats and a man shadier than any of his ‘Tiger King’ counterparts. Over three episodes, ‘Tiger King: The Doc Antle Story’ unpacks the truth about Doc, as witnesses come forward to share their troubling stories of abuse...

As “Tiger King” itself notes in its Season 2 premiere, during an opening sequence delivered with all the melodramatic gravitas of a grim thriller, Netflix dropped “Tiger King” at precisely the right moment for it to become the cultural sensation it did. By March 19 of 2020, millions of people were stuck at home waiting out the first wave of the novel coronavirus, not realizing that life was about to change for a much longer time than it takes to perfect sourdough starter. For anyone else starved for something besides a deadly virus to focus on, something as flashy and splashy as “Tiger King” provided the perfect kind of distraction. The interwoven tales of warring Oklahoma big cat enthusiasts “Joe Exotic,” Carole Baskin, and the wild cast of characters surrounding them proved irresistible. That the show wasn’t particularly good or well-made didn’t really matter. “Tiger King,” in all its tacky glory,...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched “Tiger King 2” on Netflix.

It has been a year and a half since “Tiger King” mania took over the newly-locked down world, and now Netflix is hoping to recapture that magic with “Tiger King 2.” This time around, though, the focus is much heavier on Carole Baskin and her missing former husband, Don Lewis.

The original docuseries — centering on a feud between big cat zoo owners and the tumultuous personal life and fame seeking of Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage — first premiered on Netflix in March 2020, right when the Covid-19 pandemic was forcing people inside. A content consumption frenzy ensued, leading to directors Rebecca Chaiklin and Eric Goode filming enough additional footage to fill five more episodes.

There were several questions lingering at the end of “Tiger King” — most obviously, “Was Joe Exotic framed and will he get out of jail?...

Carole Baskin has filed a last-minute lawsuit against streaming giant Netflix seeking to stop the upcoming release of Tiger King 2 on Nov. 17.

In her complaint filed Monday in federal court in Florida, Baskin says she was “shocked” when the official trailer released last week “prominently portrayed” her as a “central” figure of the upcoming sequel. She claims the new follow-up series repurposes her interview material from the original docuseries without proper consent, after she “steadfastly” rejected any role in Tiger King 2, telling producers, “No, and lose my number.

Carole Baskin is suing Netflix for using footage of her in the upcoming “Tiger King 2” series.

Baskin and her husband, Howard Baskin, filed suit in Tampa, Fla. on Monday against the streamer and production company Royal Goode Productions. According to the documents, obtained by Variety, Baskin alleges that Royal Goode Productions has breached contract by continuing to use footage of her and her husband in “Tiger King 2,” since they only signed appearance release forms for the first documentary. Netflix declined to comment on the matter.

“Understanding that the Appearance Releases limited Royal Goode Productions’ use of the footage of the Baskins and Big Cat Rescue to the single, initial documentary motion picture, the Baskins believed that any sequel – though odious – would not include any of their footage,” the document reads, also stating that the Baskins were surprised to see that footage of them was used in the trailer for “Tiger King 2.

Tiger King 2 Trailer — Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin‘s Tiger King 2 (2021) TV show trailer has been released by Netflix. The Tiger King: Season 2 trailer stars Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson. Crew Jerome Upchurch and Damien Drake crafted the cinematography for this TV series. [...]

Continue reading: Tiger King: Season 2 TV Show Trailer: The Next Chapter of Zookeeper Joe Exotic & Carole Baskin Saga Begins [Netflix]...

Netflix has released a dramatic first trailer for “Tiger King 2,” the sequel to the larger-than-life documentary series that got everyone through the first isolating weeks of the pandemic. Full of suspense and outlandish characters, “Tiger King” immediately captured viewers’ attention worldwide. Now the saga continues with Joe Exotic behind bars, and not the kind you keep a big cat in. Set to Liza Minnelli singing “Maybe This Time” from “Cabaret,” the trailer below teases plenty of drama and intrigue to come.

Here’s the official synopsis, per Netflix: “With Joe Exotic behind bars and Carole Baskin closing in on ownership of his disreputable zoo, the Emmy-nominated saga continues its twisted course with ‘Tiger King 2’ as newfound revelations emerge on the motivations, backstories, and secrets of America’s most notorious big cat owners. Old enemies and frenemies, including Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson return for another season of murder,...

With Liza Minnelli’s old Cabaret anthem of optimism playing in the background (“Maybe this time I’ll win!”), the trailer for Netflix’s Tiger King 2 documentary sequel series promises all the drama, backstabbing and just plain weirdness that caught viewers’ attention the first time around.

The new series, premiering Nov. 17, is described by Netflix like this: With Joe Exotic behind bars and Carole Baskin closing in on ownership of his disreputable zoo, the Emmy-nominated saga continues its twisted course with Tiger King 2 as newfound revelations emerge on the motivations, backstories, and secrets of America’s most notorious big cat owners. Old enemies and frenemies, including Jeff Lowe, Tim Stark, Allen Glover, and James Garretson return for another season of murder, mayhem, and madness. Thought you knew the whole story? Just you wait.

Best line of the trailer? Says the King himself, Joe Exotic, “Jeff and Lauren are...

Tiger King 2 looks to be more bonkers than its predecessor.

Netflix on Wednesday dropped a full-length trailer for the forthcoming follow-up, and it looks pretty crazy.

“When you thought you’ve seen it all, you haven’t quite seen it all,” the clip teases.

“We have more money than God right now,” Jeff Lowe, who took over Joe’s zoo when he went to prison, says in the clip.

Joe is still incarcerated and unimpressed about everyone on the outside making a lot of money on the success of the original series.

At one point, he vows to make a deal with the devil, likely to get out of the big house.

The clip even touches upon the demands for Donald Trump to pardon him.

The trailer is a lot, and even though Carole Baskin has slammed the decision to bring the show back, it seems like there will...

National Basketball Assn. legend Michael Jordan was not an easy sell on the docuseries The Last Dance. Producer Mike Tollin told a Producers Guild panel of Non-Scripted Television producers that the NBA had kept 500 hours of footage from Jordan’s final season,1997-1998, pending Jordan’s approval to release it.

Tollin said he had to pin Jordan down for a meeting, then finally convinced him by saying, “Every day, people come to my office wearing your shoes who’ve never seen you play. It’s time.”

When Tollin and director Jason Hehir interviewed Jordan, the athlete opened up about friction between teammates and associates outside of basketball. Tollin said episode seven of The Last Dance shows Jordan at his most vulnerable.

“He says, ‘All I wanted was to be the best basketball player I could be. All I ever asked of all of my teammates was no more than I asked of myself.

With a flurry of exiting pardons expected from Donald Trump any moment, incarcerated Tiger King star Joe Exotic has taken the Justice Department to court in the hopes of joining Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and other similar upstanding citizens in getting a Presidential act of clemency.

“Joe Exotic seeks to require the United States Office of the Pardon Attorney to comply with its ministerial duty to submit a recommendation to the President of the United States regarding Joe Exotic’s application for pardon, so that the President can exercise his Constitutional discretion in determining whether to grant or deny application petition,” declares a complaint that Exotic filed under his real name of Joseph Maldonado-Passage in federal court last week against the DOJ’s Acting Pardon Attorney Rosalind Sargent-Burns (read it here).

A self described “gay, gun-toting, redneck in Oklahoma,” according to Exotic’s 257-page initial pardon petition, the infamous...

Apparently the power of Joe Exotic can be denied. “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” the controversial Netflix docuseries that centered on the big cat enthusiast, amateur zoo owner, singer, one-time presidential hopeful and now prison inmate, was shut out at the 72nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

The biggest prize for which it was nominated was the documentary or nonfiction series Emmy, which was handed out on the final night of Creative Arts ceremonies, Saturday, Sept. 19. It lost that award to ESPN’s “The Last Dance.”

“Tiger King” was nominated for five other awards, all of which were handed out earlier in the week, and all of which went to other nominees. Those categories were documentary/nonfiction directing, nonfiction picture editing, documentary series or special music composition (original dramatic score), nonfiction or reality program sound editing (single or multi-camera), nonfiction or reality program sound mixing, and documentary or nonfiction series...

The Primetime Emmys take place on September 20 and air live coast-to-coast on ABC. But the majority of awards are handed out at the five Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies that take place in the week leading up to TV’s biggest night. The Creative Arts trophies will be awarded at five events on: September 14 (reality and nonfiction; Sept. 15 (variety); Sept. 16; Sept. 17 and Sept. 19 (mix). The first four of these will stream live on Emmys.com while the last will air on Fxx.

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has forced TV productions, film shoots and entertainment events to shut down all year to slow the spread of the easily transmitted disease, all of this year’s Emmy ceremonies will be held virtually. While Jimmy Kimmel emcees just one show — the Emmys next Sunday — Best Reality Host nominee Nicole Byer (“Nailed It”) has been tapped to preside over all five of the Creative Arts awards.

If you were watching Monday’s live stream of the 2020 Creative Arts Emmys (and we were — watch our reactions here), then you definitely heard the name “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” a lot. But not when it came to the winners. Indeed, Netflix’s behemoth docu-series lost five Emmys at the virtual ceremony: directing, music composition, picture editing, sound editing and sound mixing. However, there’s still hope on the horizon as the big prize — Best Documentary or Nonfiction Series — doesn’t get handed out until Saturday, September 19.

See‘Tiger King’ directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin give update on possible Season 2 [Exclusive Video Interview]

During Saturday’s upcoming ceremony, “Tiger King” will face off against ESPN’s “The Last Dance,” Hulu’s “Hillary,” PBS’s “American Masters” and HBO’s “McMillion$.” None of these contenders took home any Emmys on Monday night, so it’s an even playing field heading into...

“We’re exploring the idea,” says Rebecca Chaiklin about possibly continuing her documentary miniseries “Tiger King” with a second season on Netflix. She explains, “It would be a continuation of the story if we were to conclude that there was enough to film.” With “Tiger King” nominated for six Emmys, Chaiklin and her creative partner Eric Goode discussed the making of the show in an exclusive interview with Gold Derby (watch the video above), with Chaiklin joining the call from a moving vehicle and Goode speaking from his Turtle Conservatory headquarters. Chaiklin and Goode are nominated in Best Documentary Directing for the series’ second episode; they also contend through their executive producer credits with Fisher Stevens in the Best Documentary Series race, for which they have submitted the fifth episode for academy consideration.

SEEour chat with “Tiger King” sound editor Ian Cymore.

Goode says about wrestling with the ethics of...