Radial Entertainment revives A Haunting with Jupiter Pictures producing

LONDON, 12 OCTOBER 2026 —

EXCLUSIVE: Radial Entertainment is reviving another franchise from the New Dominion Pictures library. The Oaktree Capital Management-backed distribution and free-streaming/FAST channel company has ordered 16 episodes of A Haunting , which will be produced in partnership with Snapped and How to Catch a Dirtbag maker Jupiter Entertainment.

Will Bring Brands, Creators & Culture Under One Roof News 'Shy & Lola': How Bel Powley, Hayley Squires & Amanda Coe Brought A Coen Brothers Vibe To BBC Thriller In UK Port Town This comes after Radial in March bought the New Dominion catalog, comprising more than 600 hours of content in the true crime, investigation and paranormal genres. It has since already relaunched The FBI Files and this marks the second.

Watch on Deadline Radial was formed in July last year when Oaktree acquired FilmRise and merged it with Shout! Studios to form an operation with more than 75,000 titles. “ A Haunting is exactly the kind of enduring franchise we are building around at Radial: recognizable, proven programming with a passionate audience and meaningful room to grow,” said David Buoymaster, Chief Investment Officer at Radial Entertainment.

“By pairing owned IP with an experienced production partner and a modern creative approach, we can deliver new episodes that feel true to the series while expanding its value for audiences and platforms around the world.” Across 11 seasons and more than 100 episodes, A Haunting has focused on firsthand accounts of reported paranormal encounters through dramatic recreations and interviews with those who experienced them.

The new season will place an emphasis on suspense, dread and psychological terror, and expand the use of archival materials, photographs, home videos and social content. Stories will draw from a broader pool of domestic and international witnesses than previously. The revival comes as horror continues to resonate at the box office following the success of Obsession and Backrooms .

Radial points to growth of the genre on streaming services, and says demand for supernatural stories from real people is growing. Jupiter is also applying similar strategic thinking. “As we continue to see with our long running franchises like Snapped and Fatal Attraction , audiences are hungry for high volume repeatable series in the crime and supernatural space,” said Jupiter President Patrick Reardon.

In an exclusive interview with Deadline, Buoymaster explained how shows such as A Haunting were allowing Radial to internally redefine the term “premium” in a FAST channel distribution environment.

“Our definition of ‘premium content’ is different from most of the rest of the industry’s: We define content as ‘premium’ if it will drive large amounts of viewership/utilization and we can generate revenues as a function of that engagement – regardless of the genre, age, format, star power, or any other qualitative factor of the content,” he said.

Since Oaktree bought the company and Radial appointed Jeff Shultz as CEO, it has seen Brendon Thomas stepp into the new role of Chief Revenue Officer, Carrie Ferman joined as COO, Matt Katrosar take on a newly created role of EVP of Global Advertising and Partnerships, and Jason Gottlieb come on as General Counsel. Buoymaster oversees where content investments are made, and James Meyer has been added as SVP of Sales, based in London.

DEADLINE: What does the plan to produce new episodes of A Haunting speak to about the Radial content strategy? David Buoymaster: Producing new episodes of A Haunting is a great encapsulation of how we think about content. If we had to distill the goal of our content strategy into a single goal, it would be audience engagement.

Are we providing viewers with content that resonates enough to win their engagement against the multitude of other media options they have to choose from? We built the business by identifying library content that would drive viewership and have been quietly building our Originals business with the same guiding principle.

As we began investing in original content, we leaned heavily on where we saw the most consistent and outsized engagement within our catalog, which was in unscripted genres, particularly true crime. By the end of this year, we will have delivered more than 600 episodes of factual television, which generate hundreds of millions of streaming hours annually.

DEADLINE : You have previously said people do not necessarily understand the Radial business model… what can you say to make that clearer and what are people currently missing? DB: We can always do more to articulate and demonstrate the breadth and depth of our content assets. The breadth is more known – we have a 75,000+ title library that spans effectively every genre, format, and vintage of content out there.

By depth, I think people underestimate our scale of our distribution and viewership of our content. We are in the business of driving engagement, with a pretty platform agnostic approach to distribution—meaning we want our content to reach the maximum number of viewers, wherever they prefer to consume it. Radialc ontent generates approximately 5 billion streaming hours annually.

We had the number one movie on Netflix ( Old Henry ) and one of our recent Radial Originals spent more than three weeks in the Top 10 TV Shows on Prime Video ( World’s Most Evil Women ).

I could keep going on this, but the point is we are acutely focused on content that will drive engagement, and our revenue model is aligned with that, so we get paid based on the traffic our content generates. We are going to keep investing, creating, and growing our footprint quietly – but the numbers should speak for themselves. DEADLINE: How are you deciding where to invest in content?

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