‘Most Wanted’ tracks Washington state fugitives
“Washington’s Most Wanted,” a new regional TV series patterned after “America’s Most Wanted,” has started airing Saturdays at 10:30 p.m. on KAYU-28 (cable channel 3 in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene).
The show will feature alerts on Washington state fugitives and track the progress of local authorities in their efforts to capture them. Also, an officer who went above and beyond the call of duty to help citizens in need will be featured every month.
Since its December debut on Seattle’s Fox affiliate, KCPQ, the series has helped capture and bring to justice 12 fugitives.
CBS launches ‘Live’
Most people think that life has tested them, but they’re only bumps in the road compared to the subjects in a new CBS series that begins tonight.
“Live to Tell,” a limited-run, three-episode series from the “48 Hours Mystery” production team, airs at 10 p.m. Each episode’s subject faced life-altering, if not life-ending, moments.
Tonight’s show features Cylin Busby, a woman whose police officer father was shot by a thug. He survived, but the family was convinced they would all be killed and spent years on the run.
Another episode involves a couple who were stalked, kidnapped, pushed to the edge of a river, shot and left for dead.
The final “Live to Tell” is about a family sailing around the world when, after an accident, the mother is forced to choose between saving her husband or their four children.
The series could expand if it does well.
MyNetwork scales back
MyNetwork TV says it will essentially get out of the business of presenting original programming except for professional wrestling.
It also will turn its Saturday night schedule over to local affiliates.
MyNetwork TV airs locally over the air on digital channel 4.2, and on Comcast cable channel 114 in Spokane and Time Warner cable channel 9 in Coeur d’Alene.
Except for its “Friday Night Smackdown” wrestling series, MyNetwork’s most popular show, the only other series it has committed to for next fall is two hours of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” reruns. My Network also will have a movie night.
Current programming includes a video collection, “The World’s Funniest Moments,” hosted by Arsenio Hall; the reality show “Jail”; “Breaking the Magician’s Code”; and a remake of “The Twilight Zone.”
The future of all of those shows is in doubt, given the network’s new rules about licensing fees to programming producers and the sharing of advertising revenues.