Title: How Keith Morrison and 'Dateline' became true crime sex symbols - Los Angeles Times
Headings: How Keith Morrison and ‘Dateline’ became true crime sex symbols
How Keith Morrison and ‘Dateline’ became true crime sex symbols
Stephen Battaglio
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Content: What am I going to watch when? Am I going to binge? ‘ Do I watch it on which platform?’ In that world, we offer predictability and consistency.” The emergence of Netflix as a destination for true crime enthusiasts with such series as “Making a Murderer” and “Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes” has helped stimulate interest for all of the shows, according to Bill Hague, executive vice president at the research firm Magid Associates. Advertisement
Host Keith Morrison of the popular true crime show “Dateline” on NBC. (NBC)
True crime podcasts such as “Serial” and the Los Angeles Times’ “ Dirty John ” — both of which had tens of millions of downloads, with the latter adapted into a scripted drama for cable network Bravo — have also expanded the audience. “These are compelling stories that are authentic,” Hague said. “ People like the intellectual exercise of following along and solving them themselves.