I’m going to own up. I got a real buzz from the news that Netflix was airing our True Crime series Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.

As a long-time BBC man who spent almost as long supplying ITV, too, there is a school of thought that says new kids on the block like Netflix are ‘not quite’ as important.

Not for us. It means we have gone global. Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer is available anywhere in the world.

And it means we have gone young. My fab 4 children don’t watch TV – they watch a screen nearest to them that offers a portal to Netflix, Amazon Prime and the TV channel-content via the traditional broadcaster websites.

The first series has done well enough for Netflix and others (like the Discovery channel) to commission our second season which began production this week. Featuring the hugely talented and uber clever Linda Papadopoulos (pictured) as our ‘mind hunter’ who brings her insight into the psyche of some of the world’s worst serial killers. Dr. Linda has become one of the most well recognised faces on British TV. Her expert opinions are also regularly featured on news programmes including, CNN, Sky News, ITN news and BBC24. Dr. Linda has also appeared on American TV shows such as “The Early Show” on CBS and on CNN.

But she seemed to get a buzz, too, from the series being available on Netflix and in season 2 she will be seen a lot more than in series 1. She kicked off the week with an interview about Ireland’s only serial killer; Kieran Kelly.

In 2014, Kelly became known as the London Underground Serial Killer in a book alleging he had killed 31 people and claiming ‘the authorities’ had kept it quiet to allay the fears of daily commuters.  However,  more systematic research suggests no cover-up with an albeit macabre criminal record which probably claimed the lives of as many as 15 people. Not all killed on the tube.  

His story is a mystery we lift the lid on in our new series and the title does give it away, as we get Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer.