This article is about the former evening television programme. For the current daytime television programme, see Crimewatch Live. For the Singaporean television programme, see Crimewatch (Singaporean TV series). For other uses, see Crimewatch (disambiguation).
Crimewatch
Also known as
Crimewatch UK
Genre
Factual
Based on
Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst
Presented by
Nick Ross Sue Cook David Hatcher Helen Phelps Jacqui Hames Pattie Coldwell Jill Dando Fiona Bruce Rav Wilding Kirsty Young Matthew Amroliwala Martin Bayfield Jason Mohammad Sophie Raworth Jeremy Vine Tina Daheley
Opening theme
"Rescue Helicopter"
Composer
John Cameron
Country of origin
United Kingdom
Original language
English
No. of series
33
No. of episodes
322 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer
Joe Mather
Production location
Multiple location(s)
Running time
60 minutes
Original release
Network
BBC One
Release
7 June 1984 (1984-06-07) – 20 March 2017 (2017-03-20)
Related
Crime Limited Crimewatch File Crimewatch Solved Crimewatch Live
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Crimewatch (formerly Crimewatch UK) is a 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 the final years before cancellation it was usually broadcast roughly once every two months.
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 eleven 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 joined the show.[1]
Kirsty Young and Matthew Amroliwala replaced Ross and Bruce following their departures in 2007. The BBC announced on 15 October 2008 that they would move production of shows such as Crimewatch to studios in Cardiff.[2] 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.[3] The new series began on 5 September 2016, with the final episode broadcast on 20 March 2017.
In October 2017, the BBC announced that the main Crimewatch series had been cancelled, citing declining viewership.[4] The daytime spin-off series Crimewatch Roadshow (now Crimewatch Live) would continue to air, but will also air more episodes per year.[5]Crime NI, a similar live monthly programme in partnership with Crimestoppers UK, was aired from 3 September 2021 to 11 April 2022 on BBC One Northern Ireland and presented by Wendy Austin and Dearbhail McDonald.[6]
^"Entertainment | Bruce takes Crimewatch job". BBC News. 12 November 1999. Retrieved 1 July 2016.
^BBC evicts top shows from London BBC News, 15 October 2008
^Foster, Patrick (4 August 2016). "Jeremy Vine to become new Crimewatch presenter". The Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
^"Crimewatch AXED after 33 years as revamp of BBC favourite fails to save ratings nosedive". Daily Express. 17 October 2017.
^Cite error: The named reference bbc-cancelled was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"BBC One - Crime NI". BBC. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
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