Long before the massive popularity of other true crime shows like Making a Murderer, The Keepers, and Serial, Dateline - celebrating its 25th anniversary this year - was already must-see TV for armchair detectives.īuzzFeed News caught up with Morrison and some of the show’s other mainstays to uncover what makes up the perfect Dateline formula, how to interview people about the worst day of their life, the surprising cooperation of law enforcement, and the tricks Dateline uses behind the scenes to maintain suspense throughout an episode. When it premiered in March 1992 with co-anchors Stone Phillips and Jane Pauley, the show was originally a newsmagazine it’s since evolved to focus predominantly on real-life murder mysteries. “Eventually, I think anybody who’s in this line of work for a period of time.we are probably better off making fun of ourselves than we are taking ourselves too seriously.”Īnd maybe that, aside from the SNL parodies and memes and tributes and celebrity fandoms and even voicing a traffic app, is why Keith Morrison has made Dateline so compelling. … Suppose I’ve built up over the years strange quirks that for some reason are familiar to people,” Morrison told BuzzFeed News this May about his metamorphosis from hard newsman to noir-style narrator. Whether he is cocking his head like a curious bird during interviews to express skepticism of a suspect’s dubious story or leaning with his arms crossed against, well, anything, the show has made him a cult icon. Famed Dateline correspondent Keith Morrison has a dramatic delivery that hearkens back to old-time radio mystery shows.
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