What is the point of just showing the same old episodes dressed up with a new Host?

Wouldn't it have been easier to just buy the rights to the old shows with Sterling and just add the updates when needed and the new address to the unsolved ones?

The case with the breakin where the young girl lost her memory. You know the one(Freddy Krueger mask). They took the same old interviews(unless the girl has had braces for twenty years) with the same old footage.

Don't get me wrong, I'll still watch the show religiously, and i like the choice of host. He was great in the movie "Striking Distance" with Bruce Willis.

Atleast, I know what scared the hell out of me in the old Unsolved Mysteries. It had to be Sterling and the Music. I just don't get the same scary feeling i got with the old one.(And for the record, I tivo it and watch it late at night trying to recapture the tenseness.)

Is there suppose to ever be actual new stories?


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What is the point of just showing the same old episodes dressed up with a new Host?

Wouldn't it have been easier to just buy the rights to the old shows with Sterling and just add the updates when needed and the new address to the unsolved ones?

The case with the breakin where the young girl lost her memory. You know the one(Freddy Krueger mask). They took the same old interviews(unless the girl has had braces for twenty years) with the same old footage.

Don't get me wrong, I'll still watch the show religiously, and i like the choice of host. He was great in the movie "Striking Distance" with Bruce Willis.

Atleast, I know what scared the hell out of me in the old Unsolved Mysteries. It had to be Sterling and the Music. I just don't get the same scary feeling i got with the old one.(And for the record, I tivo it and watch it late at night trying to recapture the tenseness.)

Is there suppose to ever be actual new stories?


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You mean Stack, not Sterling.

There were never any initial plans to show new cases. From the beginning the plan was to run cases featured on the original series in "revamped" segments.

I'm actually glad to see old cases profiled. I'm not incredibly impressed with the new UM, but at least it's keeping alive some of these older cases that are still unsolved (which is, after all, the entire purpose of the show).

I guess Spike thinks they can capture a new audience by simply changing the look and sound of the old UM. I'm not a big fan.

But younger people may like the Star Wars sound effects, the picture in picture view and a host under the age of 70. I certainly hope so. If this show fails the franchise maybe dead and my TV dream of new cases and a new show gone forever. :(

On the brighter side, Dennis Farina does get a paycheck and Cosgrove and Meurer are now so wealthy they are considering starting their own country. :crazy:

Simple, it is cheap programming. You just buy the rights to the shows at a knockdown price, jazz the show up to appeal to the Spike audience & get a fairly well known but not too expensive host, who was actually a cop for real before being an actor- Crime Story & Snatch.

I think they will be making some new segments, probably shot cheaply but in a Hollywood style & that annoying modern way of over the top, rather than being a slow paced coherent story.

Yeah, the Enzyte commercials are getting old too.

RIP old UM. :(