True crime half-hour strip “Crime Exposé With Nancy O’Dell” has been given a firm go for first-run syndication this fall, having been cleared in 95% of the country. The series, which premieres Sept. 23, comes from Michael Eisner’s Tornante Television, as well as Scott Sternberg Prods. and Trifecta Entertainment (which is also handling distribution).
Former “Entertainment Tonight” co-anchor Nancy O’Dell hosts the show, and will executive produce with Trifecta Ent. CEO Hank Cohen and Scott Sternberg Prods.’ Scott Sternberg. Show is being targeted for daytime and early fringe dayparts.
“What an honor it is to be returning to daily television, especially with this amazing team of true professionals and experts in the crime space,” O’Dell said in a statement. “I started my TV career as a crime reporter and investigative journalist, so it is a full circle moment for me to return to my roots with this compelling show.”
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“Crime Exposé” has been cleared via straight barter deals to Fox stations in major markets including WNYW/WWOR New York, KTTV/KCOP Los Angeles and WFLD/WPWR Chicago. Other Fox clearances include stations in Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, Phoenix, Washington D.C., Orlando, Minneapolis and Houston. “Crime Exposé” will also air on Sinclair stations in 52 markets, and has also been sold to stations from groups including Nexstar, CBS, Gray, Tegna, Scripps, Mission, Imagicomm and Cox.
According to the show descriptor, “‘Crime Exposé’ tells the story of one murder per episode and takes the audience through all aspects of the crime, the investigation, and the solving of each case through interviews with the victim’s family, witnesses, actual court records and the law enforcement officials involved in each case. Each episode will end with the Safety Spotlight, a brief informative safety-tip that follows up on each day’s story delivered by the series’ own law enforcement safety contributor.”
“Finally bringing daily original true crime to first–run syndication always made sense knowing the audience was there,” Sternberg said. “And to have our host, Nancy O’ Dell, beloved in syndication,and who started as an investigative reporter, completed the puzzle.”
O’Dell’s other credits include “Access Hollywood.” She departed “ET” in 2019 after nearly nine years.
