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The HBO documentary 'The Mortician' revisits David Sconce’s notorious Lamb Funeral Home scandal, with the ex‑mortician speaking on camera.
In 1989, he pleaded guilty to 21 felony counts, which included violence by his group of employees on rival morticians. David Sconce agreed to be interviewed extensively in HBO's "The Mortician." ...
Summer may be ending, but true crime season is just heating up. In this video, we’re diving into three brand-new docuseries ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Mortician is piquing audience interest for HBO. The three-part documentary series, which chronicles the inhumane practices at a funeral home in Southern California, debuted on June 1.
HBO has had a reputation for creating the best shows on TV for decades. HBO Max may have diluted the brand, but that reputation is largely intact. Some shows like And Just Like That have proven to be ...
Joshua Rofé’s three-part documentary series concluded Sunday night in HBO’s primo 9 p.m. time slot. The final few minutes of the third (and final) episode of The Mortician help explain the prestige-TV ...
HBO’s The Mortician, a documentary series premiering June 1, examines the startling true story of a cremator who went to prison for mishandling human remains. In the 1980s, David Sconce ran a ...
The Mortician is about the fall of Pasadena's Lamb Funeral Home, a once-respected family-run business until Sconce took over in the 1980s.
In 1989, he pleaded guilty to 21 felony counts, which included violence by his group of employees on rival morticians. David Sconce agreed to be interviewed extensively in HBO's "The Mortician." ...
EXCLUSIVE: The Mortician is piquing audience interest for HBO. The three-part documentary series, which chronicles the inhumane practices at a funeral home in Southern California, debuted on June 1.
Watching HBO's "The Mortician" docuseries transported me to my own 2002 funeral story, and memories of the aggressively solemn funeral-home director upselling my distraught mother with increasingly ...