{"id":108793,"date":"2017-10-17T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=108793"},"modified":"2017-10-17T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T09:31:08","slug":"crimewatch-axed-after-33-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/crimewatch-axed-after-33-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimewatch axed after 33 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One of the UK\u2019s longest continuously airing programmes has been cancelled by the BBC. The announcement was originally reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tvandshowbiz\/4699165\/bbc-axes-crimewatch-after-33-years-as-ratings-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Sun<\/a>, which claims BBC bosses want to \u2018spend more on dramas\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Crimewatch is currently hosted by Jeremy Vine and Tina Deheley, who took over in September 2016. The companion daytime programme Crimewatch Roadshow will continue to air, and will actually increase its number of episodes.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC said: \u2018We believe the successful Crimewatch Roadshow format in daytime is the best fit for the brand going forward and we will increase the number of episodes to make two series a year\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The show has a history of helping in famous cases, including the murders of James Bulger and the schoolgirl Sarah Payne. It also featured the murder of Jill Dando, who co-presented Crimewatch until her death in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>While the Sun has claimed the move will anger police, the show\u2019s dwindling ratings have somewhat diminished its function as a \u2018public service\u2019 for solving crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Ross, who was a presenter from Crimewatch\u2019s launch in 1984 until 2007, told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today Programme: \u2018If you get 15 million people watching a programme and you have an appeal, the chance of finding somebody, that one witness who saw something they had no idea was connected with the crime&#8230; they can ring in.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Once your audience starts plummeting, you go back to two million, one million, your chances of finding that person are so remote.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, Crimewatch\u2019s demise has upset and amused fans alike:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Crimewatch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Crimewatch<\/a> axed. Did you see it? Do you know someone who has an axe and has been behaving suspiciously?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Milton Jones (@themiltonjones) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/themiltonjones\/status\/920204481148653569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Crimewatch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Crimewatch<\/a> to be replaced by Hatewatch in which the Met Police battle the mean tweets of London. ?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rod Bishop (@rodbishop15) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rodbishop15\/status\/920200434752638976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BBC<\/a> have decided to axe <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/crimewatch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#crimewatch<\/a> after 33 years. That\u2019s criminal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 H (@hevans111) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hevans111\/status\/920096266343862277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Do you think Crimewatch was more than its ratings? Or do you think it had lost its crime-solving powers? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the UK\u2019s longest continuously airing programmes has been cancelled by the BBC, after a suspected fall in ratings. The announcement was originally reported by the Sun, which claims BBC bosses want to \u2018spend more on dramas\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":108794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,3699],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108796,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108793\/revisions\/108796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}