True Crime Shows Rule Prime Time. Thank you, Jeebus.
True crime shows are all the rage in Prime Time television right now. Thank you, Jeebus! Anyone who knows me knows that I am a sucker for non-fiction and biographies. I was the kid who thought the Encyclopedia was the best book in the entire library, and couldn't figure out why all of my tween friends (this scenario takes place back in the day when we were just called kids) were going bonkers over Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
All my life, I have sort of secretly hated television because it was just one boring novel after another. Occassionally there would be a break in the Fantasy Island, Love Boat, Dukes of Hazard routine, and a new pre-Reality TV show would shake up the airwaves. Real People, I'm talking about you!
I'm getting to the true crime part, I swear. Just keep reading.
I say that I sort of hated it because, come on, who hates television? It's the greatest invention on Earth. Television and The Internet. Even when it's bad, it's pretty good. Amen.
Oh yeah, my point! It's here somewhere. Since those early days, I have become a News Magazine junkie. I can't get enough Dateline. And when Dateline and Court TV partnered up to start bringing true crime stories to network television, I thought I had died and gone to heaven. Finally, TV was fun to watch!
Now there are tons of true crime shows dominating Prime Time. And because I love you, I am going to list my favorites here with links to some so that you can go forth and become schooled in the joys of non-fiction crime stories. Horatio Caine be damned. Give me real, live, overworked and underpaid detectives jacked up on coffee and donuts or put Real People back on the air!
A&E- www.AETV.com
- The First 48
- Dog the Bounty Hunter (shout out to Ryan Ozawa, my Hawaii Blog friend!)
- American Justice
- City Confidential - Note: This is my least favorite True Crime Show. Ugh, the narrator blows.
- Cold Case Files
- SWAT (Dallas, Detroit, Kansas City)
Discovery Times- http://times.discovery.com/
- 48 Hours Hard Evidence
- Decoding Disaster - Not always crime related, but still great.
- Investigative Thursdays
- Most Evil
- Sensing Murder
- City Cops
- The FBI Files
- Sensing Murder
- The New Detectives
- Most Evil - My ABSOLUTE Favorite
- Best Evidence
- Crimes That Shook the World
- Deadly Women
Discovery Health Channel
- Dr. G Medical Examiner
Court TV- www.courttv.com
- Forensic Files - This is a half hour show. Most of the others are a full hour.
- Psychic Detectives
- Haunting Evidence
- The Investigators
- Masterminds
- Arrest & Trial
- Dominick Dunne's Power Priveledge and Justice
- Body of Evidence
- LA Forensics
- Murder By the Book
- North Mission Road
- Saturday Night Solution
- Suburban Secrets
- S.W.A.T. USA
- Til Death Do Us Part - True crime stories, but dramatized.
- Inside - Prison Documentaries
MSNBC- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
- Dateline
- Dead Men Talking
- Unlocking the Past
- Lockup - Prison Documentaries
I haven't mentioned any of the Cops or police chase shows since they're really not my cup of tea.
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