The show also announced that Natalie Morales is joining the staff as a correspondent. But now, with the genre so popular, securing interviews to tell the more dramatic stories is very competitive and “Dateline NBC” has a unit assigned to that task, Corvo said. The crime stories used to be relatively easy to find.
16, investigates Lori Vallow, an Idaho woman charged in connection with the disappearance of her children. The Widower' is actually 12 years in the making. The second podcast, which becomes available on Feb. Its first podcast, “The Thing About Pam,” has been downloaded more than 14 million times since its September 2019 debut. It’s why the network has in recent years sold episodes of the show in the syndication market, he said. ‘Dateline’ is in every place a consumer can find it.” “You don’t really attract an audience like you did in the old days,” Corvo said. They lend themselves to delayed viewing in a way most news programs don’t, and the Peacock channel will need material. Not everything “Dateline NBC” does is true crime the show has done hours on the Capitol riot, COVID-19 vaccine development and the George Floyd case in the past year.īut crime stories are the central focus.
“Dateline” has interesting inside looks at how the police and prosecutors reacted as the story unfolds, and they would likely not make it if the show was tightly edited into one episode, he said. “The story itself almost demands all of the time we are giving it because of all of the twists and turns,” he said. Slepian, who calls Randolph the “Joe Exotica of true crime” and hypes the “The Widower” as “’Tiger King’ meets ‘Jinx’ meets ‘In Cold Blood,’” vouches for its ability to hold the audience’s attention. In this Dateline classic, a woman disappears with her 11-month-old daughter after losing a hotly contested custody battle. The risk, however, comes in following a trend and making a story longer than the material merits. HBO’s “The Jinx” and Netflix’s “Making of a Murderer” and several podcasts have illustrated the appeal of immersive crime stories that go beyond the one- or two-hour format of network newsmagazines.
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