America's Most Wanted revival to be hosted by Elizabeth Vargas
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Fox has appointed former ABC News anchor Elizabeth Vargas to succeed John Walsh as the host of the upcoming America’s Most Wanted revival. Entertainment Weekly reports that Vargas, an Emmy-winning journalist and longtime reporter, is set to lead the revival that was first announced a little over a year ago. Set to debut in March on Fox, America’s Most Wanted will follow in the footsteps of its predecessor, inviting viewers to participate in the capture of the eponymous criminals profiled in its episodes. The original series, which ran from 1988 to 2001 (followed by a brief revival on Lifetime in 2012), used reenactments and interviews to tell the stories of some of the country’s most wanted fugitives. Host and creator John Walsh would then ask viewers to call in to a special hotline if they had any information on the suspects featured in the episode; those tips resulted in the apprehension of 1,186 criminals, including 17 from the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list.
Vargas will host the revival from its new headquarters, where she will speak with various representatives and agents from the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the Secret Service. The new America’s Most Wanted will “take advantage of advanced crime-fighting technology such as augmented reality and life-size 3-D avatars that will illustrate what suspects might look like now,” which sounds cool and all, but there’s no way it’ll be anywhere near as iconic as the nightmarishly accurate clay bust from the original series that helped capture family annihilator John List.
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Find it slightly weird that Walsh has no role given that he’s still active.
I hear the first season will be spent entirely in the pursuit of the various morons and boobs from the recent attempt to overthrow the federal government.
It’s on Fox, so that seems unlikely.
I can’t find any clarification. Is this 21st Century Fox (Disney) or Fox Corporation (Fox News, Fox Business, Fox Sports)?
The EW article says it’s being broadcast on Fox, which (in the US) is still part of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Media Group.
While it is part of the larger corporation, Fox the TV network has nothing to do whatsoever with Fox News the cable channel.
Thanks for sharing, I guess. Being part of the same corporation that owns the “news” network that has spent the last 20 years spewing racism and lies and destabilizing the nation seems worthy of note.
I’m pretty sure we all know where *rump lives now.
Why are we wasting money making shows to help the police do their fucking job?
We aren’t, Fox is.