John Walsh to Debut New Show!!!!!

Glad to see Jon Walsh back in full force and thanks for the headsup Scumhunter <script charset="UTF-8" src="chrome://hdv/content/hdv.js" type="application/javascript"></script>

It's ok Charlie. Even lurking is supporting the site and I hope so too!

It's probably too late to suggest it since I'm assuming he already filmed for it, but in my opinion, if I was producing the show, there would be no choice but Shane Miller for the first ever fugitive. You want to make a splash if your first capture is the first one you ever aired and David James Roberts and Alan White certainly fit the bill for them for the first two runs of AMW. Unfortunately no such luck with Margaret Smith during the Lifetime era but they did have a barrage of captures in January of 2012 when people finally started realizing they were no longer on Fox. Roberts and White felt like fate when they were captured.

Shane Miller would probably be the most difficult debut fugitive they've ever had to catch but stranger things have happened. He's another Robert Fisher and a USMS top 15-er. It would be huge.

I also think a few non-AMW will make it. Not to brag, but I think we both picked some great cases. We didn't select guys wanted for unpaid parking tickets. I mean those are some tough cases we picked in the non-AMW section. I am also curious to see if they will re-show AMW fugitives through a new angle (for instance, perhaps a news-oriented profile on Yaser Said as opposed to re-enactment based.)

I also saw a picture of David Rose,host of Washington's Most Wanted on John Walsh's original Facebook (pre-official) page about a month ago so I wouldn't be surprised if some WMW fugitives debut on CNN. And if that was the case, Eric Contreras is the type of fugitive made for AMW or AMW-esque shows.

P.S. I edited the "May" part since that article said it but it just feels like Walsh would have announced it by now if it was May. It could be June at this point. No big deal if it's June although I'm worried that's an ominous sign since that's when the John Walsh Investigates got pushed back to on Lifetime and that show had horrible ratings.

Of course, I blame Lifetime's complete lack of promotion for that one. I'm no longer as mad at Lifetime as I was at Fox but it doesn't mean I've forgiven them. They were rumored to have aired the last two episodes of AMW without a contract, would never respond to questions about AMW's status for next season, made fans some of whom watched for two decades wait six months to officially cancel a show they understandably but obviously couldn't afford, and then did little to promote the JWI special because they were cowards who knew they'd get flooded with AMW comments. So I'm still pissed at them in those regards.

Anyway I obviously went off on a huge tangent. But I know CNN won't make that same mistake and will promote the heck out of Walsh's new show.

I called it! And I swear no one told me!

The summer is also the time when I'm busiest at work unfortunately. I'm hoping they approach the show the way they did the World's Most Wanted special on Fox. Once again I sound like a broken record, but wasn't Samantha Lewthwaite the only truly international fugitive on the show? I wish I still had the run-down on who was featured on it.

I was thinking of them but thought it was an earlier episode. You might be right though. (And it really does annoy me if they gave them another airing. Not that they don't deserve to be caught but if they didn't catch them the first time...).