It will take years for us to sort through the cultural impact of all Sean “Diddy” Combs’s alleged crimes, but Peacock’s ready to start. It’s breaking the seal with the first major documentary since his court cases began (a previous documentary, The Downfall of Diddy, was made by TMZ for Tubi in 2023, prior to multiple filings). Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy promises to explain “his decades-long transformation to Puffy and then to Diddy, with crucial insight into the forces that shaped the man and may have made him a monster.”
The documentary will come out January 14 and will feature interviews with “his childhood friend, his former bodyguard, and a Making the Band winner,” per a press release, along with New Jack Swing auteur Al B. Sure!, who is currently calling for a reinvestigation into his ex-wife and Diddy’s ex-partner Kim Porter’s death against her children’s wishes. In the trailer, there’s also an anonymous source who has “captured a lot of moments” in Diddy’s life. The release of this documentary leapfrogs the previously announced 50 Cent–produced Netflix series that has yet to debut, Diddy Do It. Given that four separate documentaries about Luigi Mangione are in the works or have already premiered, we expect that neither of these documentaries will be the last. Not to mention there will probably be a Ryan Murphy miniseries.