Crimewatch
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| Also known as | 'Crimewatch UK' |
| Genre | Factual |
| Presented by |
Current: Jeremy Vine Tina Daheley Former: Nick Ross Sue Cook David Hatcher Helen Phelps Jacqui Hames Jill Dando Fiona Bruce Rav Wilding Kirsty Young Matthew Amroliwala Martin Bayfield Jason Mohammad Sophie Raworth |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 33 |
| No. of episodes | (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Multiple location(s) |
| Editor(s) | Joe Mather |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One |
| Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
| Original release | 7 June 1984 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Crimewatch Update |
| Related shows |
Crimewatch Roadshow Crimewatch Hot Property Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Crimewatch (formerly Crimewatch UK) is a long-running and high-profile British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was originally broadcast once a month on BBC One, although in more recent years it has more usually been broadcast roughly once every two months. It was announced on 15 October 2008 that the BBC would move the production of shows such as Crimewatch to studios in Cardiff.
Crimewatch was first broadcast on 7 June 1984, and is based on the German TV show Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst (which translates as File Reference XY … Unsolved). Nick Ross and Sue Cook presented the show for the first 11 years, until Cook's departure in June 1995. Cook was replaced by Jill Dando. After Dando was murdered in April 1999, Ross hosted Crimewatch alone until January 2000 when Fiona Bruce subsequently joined the show.
Kirsty Young and Matthew Amroliwala replaced Ross and Bruce following their departures in 2007. Young and Amroliwala remained as the lead presenters until 2015. Following a brief period with guest presenter Sophie Raworth in 2016, it was announced that the show would relaunch in September 2016 with a new weekly format. The new presenters were announced as Jeremy Vine and Tina Daheley. The new series began on 5 September 2016.
The idea for the show came from the UK programme Police Five and the German Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst (File Reference XY … Unsolved). Producers viewed the shows and rejected the overt reconstructions with music to build suspense in America's Most Wanted, and were also against the idea of filming the reconstruction from the perspective of the offender as in Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst (particularly for sexual assaults). However, they favoured the idea of audience participation in the show. It started as Crimewatch UK and was due to run for three programmes only. It was regarded as an experiment when it was first shown, partly because of doubts about whether police would take part, whether witnesses and victims would welcome the idea, whether it would actually lead to arrests, and whether it could be considered to prejudice a jury. In over 25 years, 57 murderers, 53 rapists and sex offenders, 18 paedophiles, and others were captured as a direct result of Crimewatch appeals.
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