‘Hunting Gary Glitter’: Netflix Unveils Trailer & Launch Date For Doc About Race To Expose Serial Sex Abuser

Trailer has dropped for Netflix‘s Hunting Gary Glitter, the former pop superstar who was exposed as a serial child abuser. Check it out above.

Launching October 14, the doc follows the pursuit of journalists alongside the survivors who speak out, charting Glitter’s 1997 conviction, through to his years on the run, and eventual incarceration.

This string of dogged journalists chase the fugitive pop star across the globe — from Cuba to Cambodia to Vietnam — determined to expose the child sexual abuse he concealed behind decades of chart-topping fame.

Real name Paul Francis Gadd, Glitter was a pop sensation in the 1970s and 1980s but was convicted in 1999 of downloading child sexual abuse material and of many more offences over the following years, along with being deported from several countries. He was most recently charged with further historical sex offences.

Netflix’s doc is its latest big UK true crime series and comes from Voltage TV, with Sam Starbuck and Sanjay Singhal producing the three-parter.

Netflix has previously shone a light on serial sex abuser Jimmy Savile via its Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story doc.