The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox: Your New True Crime Watch on ITV

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

True crime has a problem it rarely acknowledges: most of it is not really about the crime. It is about the atmosphere — the reconstruction, the expert talking head, the dramatised re-enactment that recreates a living room you’ve seen fifty times before across fifty different documentaries. The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, arriving on ITV and ITVX on July 17, the series takes one of the most written-about, most debated, most relitigated cases of the last two decades and does something most true crime content doesn’t: it puts the woman at the centre of it back in the centre of the story.

What it is

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is ITV’s new TV series covering the case that gripped the world from 2007 onwards — the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and the conviction, acquittal, reconviction, and final acquittal of Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito. If you followed the original case, you know the broad outline. If you didn’t, the series is a complete account of one of the most complex, media-saturated, and legally extraordinary criminal cases of the modern era.

What makes this iteration worth watching rather than simply adding to the pile of existing Amanda Knox content is the framing: the series is as much about how the story was told — the media narrative, the character assassination, the cultural projections placed onto a twenty-year-old American woman in a foreign country — as it is about the facts of the case itself. In 2026, that framing lands differently than it would have in 2011.

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Why now

The Amanda Knox case never really closed, not culturally. The legal conclusion — Knox’s full acquittal by the Italian Supreme Court in 2015 — did not produce the kind of definitive full stop that might have allowed the story to settle. The questions around media coverage, the treatment of women within criminal proceedings, and the specific way Knox was constructed as a character by a global press remain as relevant and as unresolved as they were at the time.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox arrives at a moment when the conversation around those questions has considerably more language available to it. The series is not simply a retelling. It is a reassessment — and the reassessment is the part worth watching.

Where to watch

The series airs on ITV and streams on ITVX in the UK from this July. It is also available to stream on Disney+ in the UK and on Hulu in the US — which means wherever you watch, the access is straightforward.

For the ITVX and Disney+ viewer: this is the kind of series that works best watched in two or three episode blocks rather than one at a time. The case builds in layers and the framing pays off across the run rather than per episode.

Who this is for

The woman who watched Making a Murderer and couldn’t stop talking about it for a month. The one who has read every long-form piece written about Amanda Knox over the years and still feels the story was never fully told. The one who wants true crime that takes its subject seriously rather than treating her as a vehicle for atmosphere. This is that series. Clear the next few evenings.

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is the July TV event worth reorganising your evenings around. ITV and ITVX for UK viewers. It is also available to watch on Disney+ and Hulu.

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