Frederick Aaron Savage is an American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Kevin Arnold in the American television series The Wonder Years (1988–1993). He has earned several awards and nominations,such as People's Choice Awards and Young Artist Awards. He is also known for playing the Grandson in The Princess Bride,and voiced the title protagonist in Oswald. Savage has worked as a director,and in 2005 later starred in the television sitcom Crumbs. Savage returned to acting in the television series The Grinder,as well as the Netflix series Friends from College.
Unsolved Mysteries is an American mystery documentary television series,created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer. Documenting cold cases and paranormal phenomena,it began as a series of seven specials,presented by Raymond Burr,Karl Malden,and Robert Stack,beginning on NBC on January 20,1987,becoming a full-fledged series on October 5,1988,hosted by Stack. After nine seasons on NBC,the series moved to CBS for its 10th season on November 13,1997. After adding Virginia Madsen as a co-host during season 11 failed to boost slipping ratings,CBS canceled the series after only a two-season,12-episode run on June 11,1999. The series was revived by Lifetime in 2000,with season 12 beginning on July 2,2001. Unsolved Mysteries aired 103 episodes on Lifetime,before ending on September 20,2002,an end that coincided with Stack's illness and eventual death.
True crime is a nonfiction literary,podcast,and film genre in which the author examines a crime and details the actions of people associated with and affected by criminal events. It is a cultural phenomenon that can refer to the promotion of sensationalized and emotionally charged content around the subject of violent crime,for the general public.
Cold Case is an American police procedural crime drama television series. It ran on CBS from September 28,2003,to May 2,2010. The series revolved around a fictionalized Philadelphia Police Department division that specializes in investigating cold cases,usually homicides.
Bill Kurtis is an American television journalist,television producer,narrator,and news anchor.
Forensic Files,originally known as Medical Detectives,is an American documentary television program that reveals how forensic science is used to solve violent crimes,mysterious accidents,and outbreaks of illness. The show was originally broadcast on TLC. It is narrated by Peter Thomas,produced by Medstar Television,and distributed by FilmRise,in association with truTV Original Productions. It broadcast 406 episodes from its debut on TLC in 1996 until its final episode in 2011. Reruns shown on HLN were initially retitled Mystery Detectives before settling on the main title of the show in 2014.
Calum Worthy is a Canadian actor,writer,and producer,known for his roles as Dez on the Disney Channel series Austin &Ally,Alex Trimboli in the Netflix series American Vandal,Nicholas Godejohn in the Hulu series The Act,and himself in The Coppertop Flop Show. He has won two Young Artist Awards in the Leading Young Actor category for his performances in the comedy film National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion (2003) and the science fiction television series Stormworld (2009). He also won the Leading Actor award at the 2010 Leo Awards for his performance in Stormworld.
Eddie Schmidt is an American director,showrunner,producer,writer,commentator and satirist. He is perhaps best known for producing several feature documentaries that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival,including Valentine Road (2013),This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006),and Twist of Faith (2005),and for directing and showrunning television projects including Ugly Delicious (2018),Chelsea Does (2016),The Case of:JonBenét Ramsey (2016),and Good One:A Show About Jokes (2024).
Universal Content Productions LLC (UCP) is an American television production company operating within the Universal Studio Group division of NBCUniversal,which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast.
George Hill Hodel Jr. was an American physician and suspect in the murder of Elizabeth Short,the Black Dahlia. He was never formally charged with the crime,but is believed by many to have been the murderer,including by two of his children. He was also accused of raping his daughter,Tamar Hodel,but was acquitted of that crime. He lived overseas several times,primarily between 1950 and 1990 in the Philippines.
Cold Justice is an investigative true crime series originally broadcast on TNT and currently on Oxygen. The series,produced by Dick Wolf,follows former Harris County,Texas prosecutor Kelly Siegler and a team of investigators as they reopen unsolved murder cases with the consent and assistance of local law enforcement. Crime scene investigator Yolanda McClary,a veteran of the Las Vegas Metro police,also appeared on the series;McClary had earlier been the inspiration for Catherine Willows,the character portrayed by Marg Helgenberger on the series CSI.
Serial is an investigative journalism podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig,narrating a nonfiction story over multiple episodes. The series was co-created and is co-produced by Koenig and Julie Snyder and developed by This American Life;as of July 2020,it is owned by The New York Times.
Mindhunter is an American psychological crime thriller television series created by Joe Penhall,based on the 1995 true-crime book Mindhunter:Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. The series debuted in 2017 and ran for two seasons. Executive producers included Penhall,Charlize Theron,and David Fincher,the latter of whom served as the series' most frequent director and de facto showrunner,overseeing many of the scriptwriting and production processes. The series stars Jonathan Groff,Holt McCallany,and Anna Torv,and follows the founding of the Behavioral Science Unit in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the late 1970s and the beginning of criminal profiling.
Pineapple Street Studios is a podcast studio based in Brooklyn,New York. In August 2019,it was acquired by Entercom. Pineapple's work includes multi-episode narratives,investigative journalism,branded podcasts,and talk shows. They have created series for companies like Nike,Hulu,Netflix,HBO,and The New York Times. In 2020,they led all podcast companies with two Peabody Award nominations,for The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow and Running From Cops. Twelve of their shows have reached #1 on Apple Podcasts.
Payne Lindsey is an American director,documentary filmmaker,Right Side of the Tree lead singer and podcast host. He is best known for co-creating and hosting the hit investigative journalist and true crime podcasts Up and Vanished and Atlanta Monster.
Casefile,is an Australian crime podcast that first aired in January 2016 and is hosted by an Australian man who remains anonymous. The podcast,produced by Casefile True Crime Podcast,is usually released on a Saturday for three consecutive weeks,with a bonus episode on the fourth week. The series deals with solved or cold criminal cases,often related to well-known murders and serial crimes. Unlike a number of similar podcasts,the series is fully scripted and narrated,while relying primarily on original police or mass-media documents,eyewitness accounts,and interview or public announcement recordings.
Paul Holes is an American former cold-case investigator for the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. Holes is known for his contributions to solving the Golden State Killer case using advanced methods of identifying the killer with DNA and genealogy technology. Since retiring in March 2018,Holes has contributed to books,television,and podcasts about the Golden State Killer and true crime.
The Case Against Adnan Syed is a 2019 true-crime docuseries about Adnan Syed's murder conviction for the killing of Hae Min Lee. It was directed by Amy J. Berg and produced by Working Title Television,among others. The first episode of the four-part series premiered March 10,2019,on HBO.
The fifteenth season of Unsolved Mysteries is a Netflix reboot revival of the long-running American television series,created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer. The show,which documents and seeks to solve cold cases and paranormal phenomena,originally ran from 1987–2010.
West Cork is a non-fiction podcast series reported and hosted by Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde,about the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Drinane,County Cork on 23 December 1996. The 13-episode series premiered as an Audible original on 8 February 2018,as a binge,and was made freely available widely as a podcast in 2021. A new episode of the series was released on 14 May 2021,detailing the trial in absentia of the main suspect.
