I told you about a couple of pending TV or big-screen films being prepped about Olympian Oscar Pistorious’ fall from grace in my Feb. 15 column, but NBC News and Investigation Discovery (ID) already have teamed up on the "instamentary" breaking news special, "Beauty & The Blade Runner," premiering 7 p.m. Sunday on the ID network.

Even as Hollywood movie studios scramble to put together feature films inspired by yesterday's takedown of Osama bin Laden, Discovery Channel is already working on an "insta-mentary" about the dramatic execution of the terrorist icon.

These news units dominate ripped-from-the-headlines documentary specials, the so called "insta-mentaries" that are a staple of ad-supported cable because the news units have the access, the resources and the relationships with the cable networks that depend on them.