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"America's Most Wanted" Reaches 1000th Episode Milestone!

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

This weekend, Fox will air a special edition of "America's Most Wanted" which will be broadcast from the White House. Host John Walsh will be joined by President Obama. Both will "discuss some of the [Obama] administration’s crime-fighting initiatives, and the impact that the show has had on thousands of victims and millions of people in its 22 years and 1000 episodes on the air."

Full story and press release:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/0...anteds-milestone-1000th-episode-march-6/43792

Props to "AMW" for reaching this milestone. And to think that Fox actually briefly cancelled this show for a few weeks back in 1996 - that was when Fox had moved its sitcom stalwart "Married... With Children" to Saturday nights (anyone remember the ads in TV Guide with Al Bundy in a white disco suit - "Saturday night fever" - get it? And, of course, moving shows to Saturday nights usually appears to be a death knell as "the beginning of the end" for established series, but that's a topic for another thread). Since then, the revival of "AMW" (with the extended title, "America Fights Back" - what's the deal with this, anyway? Why didn't they just bring back "AMW" without the extended title, was there something in a contract preventing this? Kinda like how the band Sublime is now touring under the name "Sublime With Rome" to get around a lawsuit from the widow of the band's former lead singer... but I'm getting WAY off on a tangent here...) combined with "COPS" has proven to make Saturday night Fox's most stable night of primetime programming.

For more information on the show, and a list of AMW's "Dirty Dozen":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Most_Wanted
 
1000 episodes is pretty impressive. They must not run repeats.

I imagine that, at this point, Fox no longer worries about Saturday nights. Just as long as Cops and AMW don't turn into the ratings equivalent of a black hole, the network only has to think about the other six nights of the week. I also imagine the shows are covering their own production costs at this point.

But I could be wrong.
 
Skynet74 said:
COPS and AMW. Best two shows on TV in my opinion. FOX is on easy street on Saturday Nights.
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Not to mention that AMW truly performs a public service. It would be a travesty to cancel that show - and Cops is a natural (and rather inexpensive) lead-in. Yes, FOX has does have it good on Saturday nights.
 
BRNout said:
Skynet74 said:
COPS and AMW. Best two shows on TV in my opinion. FOX is on easy street on Saturday Nights.
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Not to mention that AMW truly performs a public service. It would be a travesty to cancel that show - and Cops is a natural (and rather inexpensive) lead-in. Yes, FOX has does have it good on Saturday nights.
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In my fantasy world, I always thought it would be really cool if the FCC required every Network on the dial to air America's Most Wanted on Saturday night. Afterall you are right. It is a true Public service and I would love to see criminals try to hide when every single channel has their face plastered all over it. LOL.
 
BRNout said:
It would be a travesty to cancel that show
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They canceled it once and there was such an outrage by both police and government officials. I remember on John Walsh the E! True Hollywood Story Walsh said something to the effect of The Governors from 41* states all sent letters to FOX demanded the show be reinstated. 41 governors can't even agree on how many stars should be on the American Flag, but they agreed AMW was a very important show.

*I don't remember the atualy number.
 
MarcB said:
41 governors can't even agree on how many stars should be on the American Flag...
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Is that a swipe at a certain unnamed Governor? Perhaps one that relinquished her/his duties last year?
 
DToTheJ said:
MarcB said:
41 governors can't even agree on how many stars should be on the American Flag...
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Is that a swipe at a certain unnamed Governor? Perhaps one that relinquished her/his duties last year?
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Do we really need to go there with this thread? Or are you just dying for a breath of fresh air - outside? ;)
 
that means they are catching more than one scumbag per episode....way to go!
 
FreddyE1977 said:
that means they are catching more than one scumbag per episode....way to go!
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Yes, on average they have been. Their 1,000th capture was in May 2008. Now, they're up to 1108 - so an extra guy gets caught about every 10 weeks. Even nabbing one scumbag per month would be laudable - these guys are up to 4 or 5! And they're all really bad. Believe me, these guys are doing the rest of us a HUGE favor.

Truly a great show - John Walsh has my respect and admiration for what he has built out of an appalling and horrible personal tragedy.
 
I know that COPS began because there was a writers strike in 1988 and FOX needed some unscripted programming. Surprisingly it became a Hit! I think America's Most Wanted began at about the same time.
 
BRNout said:
DToTheJ said:
Is that a swipe at a certain unnamed Governor...
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Do we really need to go there with this thread?... ;)
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Well, seeing as how I've sort of opened up the floodgates to let the s***bag word in (not sure if R-I frowns upon it, though I certainly agree with the poster on why the subjects at hand were glossed as such), I will take some responsibility for this one, my bad. ;)
 
Skynet74 said:
COPS and AMW. Best two shows on TV in my opinion. FOX is on easy street on Saturday Nights.
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Problem is COPS is on local TV & TWO cable networks (TruTV & G4). Plus, it hasn't really broadcast any new TRULY segments in a LONG time. As such, it's basically been in reruns on FOX in a matter of speaking.

AMW OTOH doesn't have this problem because all it's stuff is fresh.

Cheers :D
 
Pat Cook said:
Skynet74 said:
COPS and AMW. Best two shows on TV in my opinion. FOX is on easy street on Saturday Nights.
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Problem is COPS is on local TV & TWO cable networks (TruTV & G4). Plus, it hasn't really broadcast any new TRULY segments in a LONG time. As such, it's basically been in reruns on FOX in a matter of speaking.

AMW OTOH doesn't have this problem because all it's stuff is fresh.

Cheers :D
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Well COPS is certainly still in production. I don't know if they had a few repeat weeks or not. That is normal for them. America's Most Wanted does repeat segments sometimes. I've seen them do it. They do it within a new show, but some of the segments stilll have been run before. I think if they are really having trouble finding someone they will rerun the story.
 
"WWE Raw" says they're the longest-running episodic television show...yeah, right!

AMW has been around longer than them and they hold that title now! Sorry, Vince McMahon!
 
Skynet74 said:
I know that COPS began because there was a writers strike in 1988 and FOX needed some unscripted programming. Surprisingly it became a Hit! I think America's Most Wanted began at about the same time.
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Cops premiered in the '88-89 season, more precisely on March 11, 1989, a little than more a year after AMW first hit the air (February 7, 1988).
 
Anyone remember one of Fox's first unscripted "news" series, "The Reporters"? Used to air on Saturday nights, IIRC alongside "AMW." I believe it was Fox's answer to CBS' "West 57th." I wonder if "Reporters" leaned to the right as much as Fox's current news operation...
 
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