The First 48 [A&E] - anyone else addicted?
 

I love this show. Anyone else obsessively watching this show on late night A&E?

Just great stuff...

I watch this as much as I can. But A&E seems to be horribly inconsistent in their airing schedule. But when it is on, I will watch it. I would like to see it in HD though.

Yeah, I watch it on the HD channel (when the particular episode was shot for widescreen, though). They seem to run a marathon on Sundays so I try and catch up on older episodes then.

I watch it every week even though I pretty much loathe it. It's one of the only true crime shows remaining on TV, unfortunately, and I'm a true crime junkie.
The 48-hour-countdown gimmick, which the show flogs to death, was woefully unexciting from day one, and the show would be better off without it. The nasal vocal inflections of the narrator are annoying, as are the editing and stylistic choices (the boom-boom music; freeze-framing the cop intros; cutting away to the other case the moment something interesting starts to happen).
Worst of all, it's more or less the same show every week: Some indistinguishably illiterate, drug-involved ghetto black dude is offed. Cops investigate. Bystanders and associates are interviewed. Some indistinguishably illiterate, drug-involved ghetto black dude is named as a suspect, caught, interrogated, and charged.

Bring back Bill Kurtis.