On Thursday night, Keith Morrison kicks off the 29th season of NBC’s Dateline, which is now the network’s longest-running show in prime time. The story, a true crime mystery which plays out across two hours, focuses on the survivor of a horrific attack who believes police have the wrong suspect. Or, as Morrison put it when I asked him about the story, “oh my…”
Indeed. Few reporters have as distinctive a style as Morrison, whose delivery led Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader to make Morrison into a popcorn-munching and mayhem-loving recurring character. In the first episode of the podcast, we talked about where Morrison’s unique style came from, and how he—and the rest of the Dateline team—produced the new season’s stories despite the harsh restrictions put in place because of Covid-19.
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Episode 1: Keith Morrison, 'Dateline NBC'