Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen Team Up for Paramount+'s JonBenét Ramsey Limited Series

Mar. 15, 2025

Melissa McCarthy (left); Clive Owen.Photo:Dia Dipasupil/Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty

Dia Dipasupil/Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty

The tragic mystery ofJonBenét Ramseyis coming to the small screen.

On Thursday, Sept. 5, Paramount+ announced that a limited series will explore the “cold case that captivated the nation” and is set to starMelissa McCarthyand Clive Owen as Patsy and John Bennett Ramsey, respectively.

Patsy and John Ramsey are at “the heart of the series,” as it explores their “unbreakable partnership” both as a couple and as parents, who “had committed themselves and their children to building the narrative of a perfect, privileged life only to have it destroyed one Christmas night in 1996.”

JonBenét Ramsey.Zuma Press Inc/Alamy

Zuma Press Inc/Alamy

“We have been working to bring this thought provoking and bold project to audiences for some time now and could not be happier with the top notch team working in front of and behind the camera,” David Glasser, CEO of 101 Studios, said.

Paramount+’s Executive Vice President of Programming Jeff Grossman said that the series will illuminate Ramsey’s story “with the acuity and nuance it deserves.”

JonBenét was a six-year-old pageant contestant who wasfound beaten and strangled in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado on Dec. 26, 1996. The investigation into her death has been ongoing ever since, and has been explored onscreen various times, mostly in documentary style.

Her parents Patsy and John were cleared of suspicion in the case, but Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett told PEOPLE in 2016 thatthe “exoneration” decision was “misleading.”

Based on DNA analysis in 2008, then-DA Mary Lacy issued a letter to John Ramsey stating, “We do not consider your immediate family including you, your wife, Patsy, and your son Burke to be under any suspicion in the commission of this crime.”

Garnett said he didn’t feel that “exoneration was warranted based on the state of the evidence and the complexity of the case.”

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Owen, meanwhile, led AMC’sMonsieur Spadethis year and last year’sA Murder at the End of the WorldonDisney+.

source: people.com