Documentary Television Series in Singapore - True Files, Eco 4 the World, Crimewatch (Paperback)

Chapters: True Files, Eco 4 the World, Crimewatch. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: True Files (Chinese: ) is an English language television docu-drama telecast on MediaCorp Channel 5, with each episode re-enacting some major cases of crime in Singapore. When the inaugural season was telecast in 2002, its first episode was re-slotted to be telecast last, when numerous public feedback was received by the station complaining that it was too graphic after watching trailers for the pilot episode. The show was also pushed back to a 10 p.m. time slot from the second episode onwards as a result. Nonetheless, the hype helped the show to enjoy favourable viewership ratings, and so far, five seasons of this programme have been telecast. The show was hosted by veteran actor Lim Kay Tong from Season 1 to Season 4. In Season 5, the host is Tay Ping Hui, and the narration by Brian Richmond. The programme also had some episodes telecast in the Chinese version on MediaCorp Channel 8, with cases in the first two seasons hosted by Edmund Chen, and the cases in season 3, 4 and 5 hosted by Chew Chor Meng. Screenshot showing the body of Lee Kim Lai found on 25 April 1978 in the backseat of a taxi in a re-enactment of his murder on True Files, MediaCorp TV Channel 5 in the episode entitled "The Sentry." The Chinese subtitle partly translates the English narration, which went "The sentry, Lee, suffered a total of 15 cut and stab wounds, with the fatal wound being a double stab wound in the neck" ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=170902