US Edition‘Not their story to tell’: Broncos families angry over Netflix hockey tragedy series
Families say Netflix did not consult them or inform them about the eight-part drama fictionalizing the 2018 bus crash that killed 16 people, calling it exploitative.
- On Jan. 29, 2026, Netflix announced an eight-part drama set in South Dorothy, Minn., about a bus crash, produced by Shawn Levy's 21 Laps and starring Michelle Monaghan, with no release date or series name yet.
- Humboldt families say they were not consulted about the series and argue it hits too close to home, insisting the adaptation is not their story to tell.
- Reacting publicly, family members said `If you have been alive in the last eight years and you haven't heard what happened on the grand scale that it was, across the world, then you've had your head in the sand,` and some said they were 'triggered' and won't watch the series.
- The 2018 Humboldt bus crash killed sixteen people and injured 13, and last week Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, truck driver, was sentenced to eight years and ordered deported to India.
- Writer-Producer Nick Naveda said making the series "is nothing short of a dream come true," while a Netflix official said the show is fictional, a claim Humboldt families dispute.
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Proposed Netflix hockey tragedy series riles Broncos families
Netflix says a new TV series chronicling a small town hockey team who loses several members in a tragic bus crash is fictitious and not based on any real life event. But some family members of the Humboldt Broncos tragedy eight years ago are angry about the series and not being consulted by the streaming service that the eight part series was coming.
'Not their story to tell': Broncos families are angry over Netflix hockey tragedy series
The story of a small-town hockey team reeling after several of its teenage players are killed in a bus crash would probably seem familiar to Canadians, but Netflix says its new series has nothing to do with the Humboldt Broncos.
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'Not their story to tell': Broncos families angry over Netflix hockey tragedy series
The story of a small-town hockey team reeling after several of its teenage players are killed in a bus crash would probably seem familiar to Canadians, but Netflix says its new series has nothing to do with the Humboldt Broncos. Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured when a truck driver went through a stop sign and into the path of the junior hockey team's bus at a rural intersection near Tisdale, Sask., in 2018. The truck driver, Jaski…
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