'THE NIGHTMARE UPSTAIRS: WHAT HAPPENED TO TY AND BRYN?' BEGINS STREAMING MAY 19 ON HULU

When a Marriage Collapses and the Court System Becomes the Battlefield, Two Children Barricade Themselves in Their Room and Livestream the 54-Day Standoff on TikTok, Captivating the Nation

What starts as a whirlwind romance and Vegas wedding spirals into a bitter custody battle marked by allegations of abuse and parental alienation. From the creators of the Emmy(R)-nominated documentary "Take Care of Maya," the new two-part docuseries "The Nightmare Upstairs: What Happened to Ty and Bryn?" begins streaming May 19 on Hulu and on Hulu on Disney+ for bundle subscribers in the U.S. The series draws on never-before-seen archives, police interviews and court records to follow a Utah family pushed to the brink, including intimate footage from both sides of a fractured family, offering an unprecedented look at what unfolded behind closed doors. Facing a court order that could send them to a controversial reunification program and the possibility of being forced to live with their father, whom they allege abused them - an allegation the father denies - siblings Ty and Bryn barricade themselves for months, livestreaming the standoff and igniting a viral national reckoning.

The young siblings' protest goes viral on TikTok, as their mother denies allegations of parental alienation, thrusting their family's crisis into the national spotlight. After 54 days in the barricade and livestreaming nonstop to tens of thousands, the judge reevaluates their custody case, allowing rare cameras inside the courtroom. As Ty and Bryn's fate hangs in the balance, their father does something unexpected that forever changes everyone's lives.

"The Nightmare Upstairs: What Happened to Ty and Bryn?" is produced for Hulu by Wise Fool, Herzog & Co., and ABC News Studios. Henry Roosevelt, Caitlin Keating, and Rylan Soref serve as executive producers for Wise Fool, with Roosevelt and Keating also directing. Mark Herzog and Katie Doering are executive producers for Herzog & Co. Claire Weinraub is executive producer, and David Sloan is senior executive producer for ABC News Studios.

About ABC News Studios

ABC News Studios is inspired by ABC News' trusted reporting and is an award-winning, premium news and documentary original production house and commissioning partner of series and specials. ABC News Studios champions untold and authentic stories driving the cultural zeitgeist, spanning true crime, investigations, pop culture and news-adjacent stories. ABC News Studios' original titles include critically acclaimed documentaries "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields," "BRATS," "The Lady Bird Diaries," Emmy(R)-winning "Patrice: The Movie," "Barbara Walters Tell Me Everything," "Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery - The Untold Story" and most recently "#SKYKING." Other popular docuseries, documentaries and specials include "Scamanda," "The Fox Hollow Murders: Playground of a Serial Killer," "Betrayal: Under His Eye," "Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?," "Mr. and Mrs. Murder" and "Trophy Wife: Murder on Safari" and "Emma and Bruce Willis: The Unexpected Journey - A Diane Sawyer Special."

About Wise Fool

Wise Fool Films is an award-winning New York-based film and television production company founded by Caitlin Keating, Henry Roosevelt, and Rylan Soref. Their debut documentary, Take Care of Maya, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival before becoming Netflix's #1 documentary in North America and a Top 10 film in 45 countries, earning two Emmy nominations. Wise Fool creates feature narratives and premium documentaries - intimate portraits of the human experience that reveal deeper truths and spark urgent conversation.

About Herzog & Co.

Herzog & Company (HCO) is a sixteen-time Emmy nominated and four-time Emmy Award-winning television production company based in Los Angeles. Founded in 1995 by Mark Herzog, HCO has enjoyed a long and successful producing partnership with Tom Hanks' and Gary Goetzman's Playtone. Among their many projects together, the collaboration has yielded the Emmy-nominated Decades series for CNN Original Programming (The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s and The 2010s), the Emmy nominated documentary special The Assassination of President Kennedy, the twelve hour doc series The Movies; for HBO the Oscar-shortlisted documentary David McCullough: Painting With Words about the Pulitzer prize-winning author; We Stand Alone Together, the Emmy-nominated, Oscar short-listed companion documentary to the multiple Emmy-winner HBO series Band of Brothers and more recently, The Bloody Hundredth, the companion documentary to the Apple TV+ limited series Masters of the Air executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Hanks and Goetzman.