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synthisislab · 03-06-2009, 06:34 PM

I hope they pull the show altogether and sell it to another station that actually gives a damn. What Spike did to this show is pathetic. I don't even want them to produce new episodes with new cases now. Dennis Farina is nowhere near as good as Stack. Farina seems to be hamming it up too much. They should've never redid the show. For the cases that have recent updates, they could have had someone else narrate the updates only and produced the update portions only. Or they could have just did what Lifetime did and show text on the screen for the updates. The music is f'ing terrible, the way they play with the editing and the pictures with the crappy sound effects is ridiculous. Do the producers have ADD? Do you notice that the average frame length is like 1 or 2 seconds now? What I do is tape the 4 hours and just fast forward through everything except the few cases I haven't seen yet and the new updates. If I want to see the segments I've seen before, I'll just pull out the UM volumes. Now the show is overdone just like AMW. Pathetic. This has to be the worst true crime show on TV now. I wonder why A&E or Tru TV didn't buy the show. At least they would have done it right.

TracyLynnS · 03-07-2009, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by synthisislab

The music is f'ing terrible, the way they play with the editing and the pictures with the crappy sound effects is ridiculous. Do the producers have ADD? Do you notice that the average frame length is like 1 or 2 seconds now?

I hear ya! I think one of the problems is that spike is targeting the MTV type audience and that's the group with ADD who wants to hear the rock music and see the screen frames change every second.

But you can't really call what they're playing in those clips "music" and I'm sure that the MTV crowd is not watching anyway, so spike is wasting their time and just annoying the UM fans.

kadrmas15 · 03-07-2009, 06:16 PM

Well, I do agree that the show's quality has diminished dramatically. However I have ADD and yet I can watch all the segments all the way through. I for one am not overly impressed by rock music and screen fragments changing every second.

Kane · 03-07-2009, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by synthisislab

I wonder why A&E or Tru TV didn't buy the show. At least they would have done it right.

Someone at this forum mentioned having asked TruTV about UM, and that TruTV asked if it was a show about ghosts and UFOs (or something to that effect).

As for A&E, I know that they were interested in buying the show in 2000 (as were several other cable channels), but lost out to Lifetime, which decided to renew its contract with the show.

I don't know for sure if A&E was among the cable networks approached about buying the show in 2007 (I suppose the only way to know for sure is if we asked the UM people). But if by some chance they were, it might have been a case of bad timing since the channel was already in the process of phasing out most of its true-crime programming.

justins5256 · 03-07-2009, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Kane

Someone at this forum mentioned having asked TruTV about UM, and that TruTV asked if it was a show about ghosts and UFOs (or something to that effect).

Yes, that was me. The response was "isn't that the show about aliens?"

03-06-2009, 06:34 PM	#16
synthisislab Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 552	I hope they pull the show altogether and sell it to another station that actually gives a damn. What Spike did to this show is pathetic. I don't even want them to produce new episodes with new cases now. Dennis Farina is nowhere near as good as Stack. Farina seems to be hamming it up too much. They should've never redid the show. For the cases that have recent updates, they could have had someone else narrate the updates only and produced the update portions only. Or they could have just did what Lifetime did and show text on the screen for the updates. The music is f'ing terrible, the way they play with the editing and the pictures with the crappy sound effects is ridiculous. Do the producers have ADD? Do you notice that the average frame length is like 1 or 2 seconds now? What I do is tape the 4 hours and just fast forward through everything except the few cases I haven't seen yet and the new updates. If I want to see the segments I've seen before, I'll just pull out the UM volumes. Now the show is overdone just like AMW. Pathetic. This has to be the worst true crime show on TV now. I wonder why A&E or Tru TV didn't buy the show. At least they would have done it right.

03-07-2009, 06:16 PM	#18
kadrmas15 Retired from Board 03/03/11 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,910	Well, I do agree that the show's quality has diminished dramatically. However I have ADD and yet I can watch all the segments all the way through. I for one am not overly impressed by rock music and screen fragments changing every second.