Posted on 01/20/2019 12:26:32 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The mystery of whether or not there will be an Unsolved Mysteries reboot has been solved: Netflix is bringing back the cult classic investigation show. Deadline first reported the news.
The 12-episode reboot will keep the original series' format of interviews and reenactments to investigate true crime and paranormal cases, updated for the streaming era.
Stranger Things executive producer Shawn Levy will produce Unsolved Mysteries for his company 21 Laps, alongside the show's creators John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer.
Over 500 episodes of Unsolved Mysteries have been produced for various networks. The show's original and longest run was from 1987 to 1997 on NBC with host Robert Stack. CBS and Lifetime then briefly had it after its NBC cancellation, and Dennis Farina hosted a revival on Spike from 2008 to 2010. Stack and Farina are both deceased, so the reboot will have a new host.
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Blah, you couldn’t pay me to watch Netflix.
Sadly, he hasn't been available for anything since 2003.
RIP
Too bad its on the Obama Network. Incancelled as soon as they were hired.
...and they cover m*st*rb*t**n on Nutflix.
"In Search of..." covered more ground than "Unsolved Mysteries", and did a better job on the overlap than the slightly later "Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World". It also (sort of) helped to bring us the documentarian Michael Wood. And in the episode about the Great Pyramid, the cute teen girl seen climbing down from the summit first thing in the morning is now a FReeper. :^)
The other host, Dennis Farina, not 100, but similarly unavailable. So, the first episode should be about whether there's a curse on taking the job as UM host...
[singing] bet my money on a Brobdingnag...
The theme music is what made the show. There was one rare piece they played that made the murder segment it accompanied all the more chilling
It was a quintessential show. When I binge-watched it, the reenactments held up surprisingly well -- but the updates showed that, after the perps were caught, they often had already served their time and were back out, that kinda bumped me.
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