IdleRich
IdleRich
This could go in various forums (fora?) I suppose, but it's not about the crimes themselves, it's about the documentary genre that has sprung up and quietly - or at least without my noticing it happening - suddenly become enormous. As well as that, in a sense I see it as a counterpart to the Detectives thread - if I'd had the foresight to realise I'd create this thread then I could have subtitled that one "Untrue Crime" or "False Crime" or something. But I missed that opportunity sadly so here we are.
Anyway, this thread was caused by my realising that on my tv, hidden among all the channels that no-one ever watches (Food channel, 24 hour paranormal investigations and UFOs, BBC News etc) I have the AMC Crime channel, a whole channel completely filled with true crime documentaries. When did it become possible to make a whole channel of documentaries like this? In fact my friend's telly has two true crime channels - I guess right back to In Cold Blood there has been an appetite for learning about true crimes and I'm sure that over the intervening years there have been a number of interesting documentaries about crimes solved and unsolved, but how can there suddenly be an infinite supply of these programmes?
One thing that I find quite interesting is the huge range in quality. Some are shoddily made with awful reconstructions, poorly researched and horribly sensationalised with the same information repeated again and again every side of the commercial breaks which occur every two minutes, while some are quality pieces of television that are sensitively constructed and offer genuine insights - and when you look through the listings on AMC you have absolutely no way of knowing which are which, they are just thrown into the schedules willy-nilly and you have to take pot luck... although some of them are so bad you will turn off within a few terrible seconds of the start...
Well, I've got a fair few thoughts to randomly splurge out but no coherent argument or anything so a pause won't hurt, and, given that it's six a.m and I'm knackered I think I'll turn it over to your bulging brains to tell us why this is happening, what it all means and probably a few extra things too... see you in the afternoon, I'll look forward to reading your - no doubt excellent - contributions.
Anyway, this thread was caused by my realising that on my tv, hidden among all the channels that no-one ever watches (Food channel, 24 hour paranormal investigations and UFOs, BBC News etc) I have the AMC Crime channel, a whole channel completely filled with true crime documentaries. When did it become possible to make a whole channel of documentaries like this? In fact my friend's telly has two true crime channels - I guess right back to In Cold Blood there has been an appetite for learning about true crimes and I'm sure that over the intervening years there have been a number of interesting documentaries about crimes solved and unsolved, but how can there suddenly be an infinite supply of these programmes?
One thing that I find quite interesting is the huge range in quality. Some are shoddily made with awful reconstructions, poorly researched and horribly sensationalised with the same information repeated again and again every side of the commercial breaks which occur every two minutes, while some are quality pieces of television that are sensitively constructed and offer genuine insights - and when you look through the listings on AMC you have absolutely no way of knowing which are which, they are just thrown into the schedules willy-nilly and you have to take pot luck... although some of them are so bad you will turn off within a few terrible seconds of the start...
Well, I've got a fair few thoughts to randomly splurge out but no coherent argument or anything so a pause won't hurt, and, given that it's six a.m and I'm knackered I think I'll turn it over to your bulging brains to tell us why this is happening, what it all means and probably a few extra things too... see you in the afternoon, I'll look forward to reading your - no doubt excellent - contributions.