CBS has reportedly decided at the last minute to change their plans for their upcoming crime miniseries about JonBenet Ramsey from a six hour to four-hour feature.
The documentary series The Case of: JonBenet Ramsey was originally going to be a six-hour program that was going to extend through three days, but now the documentary series is only going to be a four-hour program that will air on CBS for two days. CBS producers came to this conclusion due to the subject matter and assumed their viewers would enjoy a tighter two-part series rather than a three-part series. Although the move has made commenters on social media think that they are more concerned about conserving their air time for their fall and primetime show schedule.
The series is about the controversial unsolved case about the young six-year-old child contestant that was murdered in 1996. Part one is expected to premiere on its original scheduled time on September 18th and part two is also expected to premiere on September 19th.
CBS officials also commented after their recent announcement that the network was worried that the three-part JonBenet Ramsey series wasn’t going to catch a constant viewership for three days.
CBS instead plans on expanding their popular series NCIS: Los Angeles season premiere during the original time slot for the third installment of the JonBenet Ramsey documentary series on September 25th. Oddly CBS has changed the NCIS: Los Angeles series to air on a different day to fill up the gap and also will finish off the night with an hour of re-runs.
Producers are still dealing with the editing process of cutting down the documentary series. Once CBS announced their plans to reinvestigate JonBenet Ramsey’s death, other networks like Investigation Discovery, Lifetime, and A&E’s projects about the unfortunate murder were greenlit.
Recently commenters have been asking what is the benefit of having this twenty-year-old crime became must-see TV by reminding the public of this horrific murder? Film critics assume TV networks are rehashing more nineties crime shows due to the success of Fox’s The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story series.
Other film critics and commentators assume that this must-see-TV programming could help the Ramsey family members, who were once accused of committing the past murder, convince the public of their innocence, after twenty years of suspicion.
