Dateline

This used to be my favorite show. Now it has about twenty commercial and is unnecessarily too long. I guess to get the commercials in. I just watched an episode and after about and hour and 40 minutes all we know is there are two possible suspects and the family got the case moved to a different law enforcement agency. Could have done that in 10 minutes. It's obvious there is enough material to fill two hours. They repeat the same stuff over and over again and add all this fluff interviews to prolonged the show. It's boring and sad I no longer have the patience for what used to be a great show.

I watch each and every episode of "Dateline NBC". I love all reporters and news people who talk and tell the stories. Of course the best is Mr. Morrison but the rest of them are all good and they really work hard. ONLY i have one thing to say. That lady Andrea, she needs to learn to correct the tone of her voice. A reporter is supposed to talk the way to attract people's interest. This lady has an annoying tone. Her voice goes up and down with no reason. You raise your voice when the story is in such mood. You dont talk the same tone all the time no matter what subject matter is your subject. Please change it. I like you and this feedback is just to help you being more successful.

I just watched a two how episode of Dateline. I'm not kidding when I say there must have been about 50 minutes of commercials. Every 4 minutes of the actual show was interrupted by 3 or 4 minutes of commercials. It seems more important to make money from these shows than to actually tell a story about a crime. Thank goodness for DVRs and fast forwarding. Also I love the acting by the interviewers. Like when the cops says "Well we put out a BOLO on the guy". Then the interviews astoundedley asks.. "Bolo? What's that?". Come on, you've been on the show for 16 years, you know what a BOLO is. At least take some acting lessons.

I used to love this show. I felt it was grade A crime reporting. The two hour shows are ludicrous. God help you of you do a shot every time they say, "coming up ..." You would end up passed out on the floor.

If this show is going to survive they better go back to a concise on hour format. The two hour shows are frustrating and end up boring. The episodes ate so padded and dragged out!

There are some pretty decent crime videos on YouTube that are about 20 minutes! They may not be as reliable, professional or polished as Datel8ne but they are the new competition. Get with it NBC. You are losing viewers.

Dateline just isn't the same as it used to be. And why do they show the hosts profiles?? This is irritating, I don't want to see the side of their faces!