NBC News Launching Terrorist Show
July 2, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Television
NBC News is launching a new television show that will probably make me never want to leave my house. The Wanted, which premieres on July 20, 2009 at 10pm, sounds like a cross between Cops, Dog The Bounty Hunter and America’s Most Wanted. Yeah, scary.
The show will feature an elite team of “specialists in 
counterterrorism, foreign intelligence, war crimes and investigative journalism profiling suspected international terrorists” who will hunt down war criminals. I don’t know about you but that sounds perfect for my Monday night television viewing (note the sarcasm).
The network’s executive producer, David Corvo, said the they “hope this program sheds light on an overlooked story” since it is “surprising how many people with serious accusations against them are living openly and avoiding any sort of judicial process.”
I have some real reservations about this show (aside from the fact that I find the subject matter very intense). I think that a major problem is that this could alert criminalists to fact that they are being hunted and it can expose the procedures used to track them down. I don’t know how they plan to get around that but I’m hoping they have thought of this.
Crane, who is a former US Intelligence official, said that the show is about “seeking justice for the many victims of terrorism and atrocity around the world” and that “it will start a national conversation, an important dialog about war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and international terrorism, as well as the indifference and political cynicism that hampers international criminal law and the quest for justice.”
image: Zuma Press (the above image is not from the show)
