Where & When To Watch ‘Russell Brand: Open Secret’ Documentary In Australia Today

Yesterday, Netflix announced the release of a documentary on Russell Brand, titled Open Secret, following his headline-dominating criminal trial and subsequent conviction.

Premiering today, Friday, November 13, the documentary is set to chronicle Brand’s turbulent career trajectory, from comedian and Hollywood actor to firebrand YouTuber who increasingly gravitated towards right-wing, conspiracist and conservative circles.

Per Netflix, Russell Brand: Open Secret “features insiders’ voices and archival footage, offering insight into Brand’s life and into the investigation run by The Times and The Sunday Times by chief media correspondent Rosamund Urwin and investigations correspondent Charlotte Wace.”

On Thursday, November 5, Brand was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He was subsequently sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison on Tuesday, November 10, being led away from Southwark Crown Court and transferred to HMP Wandsworth prison.

For many of his victims, the verdict was a long time coming. But the revelations surrounding Brand’s treatment of women have also raised further questions about how his behaviour was able to go unchecked for so long.

Allegations and accounts of his conduct had circulated for years, with behaviour that might otherwise have prompted serious scrutiny repeatedly dismissed or reframed as part of his provocative public persona.