Fox cancels 'America's Most Wanted,' plans specials, series no longer profitable

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Tue May-17-11 04:52 PM
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Fox cancels 'America's Most Wanted,' plans specials, series no longer profitable

Fox cancels 'America's Most Wanted,' plans specials

Good news for criminals: Fox is cancelling its long-running crime-stopping series America�s Most Wanted.

The series profiling men and women wanted by law enforcement agencies has been on the air since 1988 and consistently wins its time period. A few years ago it announced the capture of its 1,000th criminal.

The brand will still have a presence on Fox next season; the network will air four quarterly two-hour specials. But the Saturday night mainstay will otherwise be replaced by repeats.

Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly told reporters on Monday that the show was no longer profitable.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/16/fox-cancels-americas-most-wanted/

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customerserviceguy

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Tue May-17-11 05:49 PM
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1. What???!!!!

Turning in your neighbors is no longer popular? Maybe the cops will have to come out of the donut shops and actually look for a few perps, instead of relying on television-deputized shut-ins.

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Tue May-17-11 05:52 PM
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2. "turning in your neighbors is no longer popular?" I would hope if someone's neighbor is wanted for

Edited on Tue May-17-11 05:52 PM by FLAprogressive

heinous crimes, they would turn them in. You make it sound like it's schoolyard tattling...

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Tue May-17-11 08:25 PM
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5. If that were indeed the case, I agree

I have a feeling that an awful lot of Gladys Kravitz types have used this show as an excuse to make trouble for people who simply look "funny".

Maybe if the police did what used to be called 'police work' instead of just trying to gin up traffic ticket money from people who went five miles over the speed limit, or forgot to wear a seat belt, we wouldn't need these kind of shows.

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Raine

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Tue May-17-11 05:56 PM
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3. The tried that a few years back and the public pitched a fit

so they brought it back. I guess they hope with the two hour specials to stop the public from complaining.

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Tue May-17-11 05:59 PM
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4. Like Rupert Murdoch couldn't write off any losses

Edited on Tue May-17-11 06:02 PM by RamboLiberal

Like Beck made any money after the advertiser boycott. Hope they get a big backlash like they did last time they cancelled.

Chicago-based FBI special agent Ross Rice expressed similar sentiments, saying he was �shocked and saddened� by the news.

Crime victims will feel the loss, he added, because they�ll no longer have the same �opportunity to get some closure, to bring to justice the person or persons responsible for causing pain in their own lives. � I don�t think we�re going to be able to replace �AMW.� There isn�t another show out there that did what they did as well as they did it.�

For Fox, bumping �Wanted� was merely a business decision. Although it was �an important show for us historically,� Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly said, it �wasn�t particularly viable� financially.

Walsh, 66, is frustrated and puzzled by the decision. �Maybe we�re not a huge money�maker, but my God, we�ve saved lives and gotten people justice who have nowhere else to go,� he told the Sun-Times.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/television/5417879-421/lawmen-shocked-after-fox-cancels-americas-most-wanted.html

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