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Seven years before Netflix got into the Erik and Lyle Menendez business with Monsters and now its new docuseries that dropped Oct. 7, Hollywood was practically obsessed with the 1989 murders of Jose and Kitty Menéndez.

First there was the ABC documentary Truth and Lies: The Menendez Brothers – American Sons, American Murderers, followed by the Dick Wolf-produced Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders for and the telefilm Menendez: Blood Brothers for Lifetime. There was even an episode of Hln’s How it Really Happened With Hill Harper that featured a telephone interview with Lyle Menendez from prison with Chris Cuomo.

And then, there was A&e’s The Menendez Murders: Erik Tells All, a 2017 five-parter in which documentarian/EP Nancy Saslow interviewed the younger brother via telephone from the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego. Besides the hours of audio with Erik Menendez — Saslow could only conduct...

CNN has a new way to get its documentary series heard.

Sirius Xm plans to launch CNN Originals, a new channel that spotlights the growing number of non-fiction series that appear on both CNN and its sibling network Hln. Starting September 18, programs including Anthony Bourdain’s “Parts Unknown,” “United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell” and “This Is Life with Lisa Ling” will be made available via channel 121 on the satellite-radio service.

“CNN and Hln have created an incredible catalog of docuseries, and we are proud to offer them, in addition to future programs, as a full-time channel to SiriusXM subscribers,” said Megan Liberman, senior vice president of news, talk and entertainment for SiriusXM, in a statement.

The debut of the new offering comes amid growing interest by many of the nation’s news outlets in documentary programming. NBC News last week unveiled MSNBC Films, a new initiative aimed...