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In the event you love true crime tales and investigations, Saturday night time remains to be your night time. CBS has renewed 48 Hours for a thirty eighth season. The present’s thirty seventh season is at the moment airing.
A documentary and newsmagazine collection, the 48 Hours TV present premiered in 1988. This system options correspondents telling participating, compelling tales that always reveal new data, function first-time interviews, and faucet into the nation’s fascination with homicide mysteries. The collection’ segments have shed new gentle on instances lengthy ignored by legislation enforcement and the general public and have resulted in chilly instances being reopened and solved. The group’s give attention to questionable and wrongful convictions has led to eight folks being launched from jail. Correspondents embrace Erin Moriarty, Peter Van Sant, Natalie Morales, and Tracy Smith.
Airing on Saturday nights, the thirty seventh season of 48 Hours averages a 0.18 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and a pair of.23 million viewers (consists of DVR playback via 3:00 AM). In comparison with season 36, that’s down by 12% within the demo and down by 6% in viewership.
The present is CBS’s lowest-rated collection, however it’s a constant performer on a little-watched night time of programming. As well as, the corporate will get additional mileage out of episodes in syndication and by often airing a rerun on Saturdays, main into a brand new episode.
What do you assume? Is the 48 Hours collection a staple of your TV viewing? Are you content to know this CBS collection has been renewed for a thirty eighth season?