With true crime, literally everywhere you look, I mean, totally ubiquitous, why do only a certain set of series and shows actually crack through?

Tonight, an A-list Hollywood producer, one of Google's top legal minds and our very own Steve Cohen,

a former network broadcast news, TV producer for the CBS early show and Fox.

They join us here on Surviving the Survivor to talk about what makes a killer true crime production.

Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the best guests in all of true crime.

Here's your host, Emmy Award winning journalist Joel Waltman.

What's up, STS Nation? Welcome to Survive and the Survivor.

This is the global phenomenon.

I just got an email from Namibia.

Got a viewer, at least one in the kingdom of Lesotho.

I'm not trying to brag.

And the other day, I get a email, a message, a YouTube message, actually, from a woman in Subotica, Serbia, the same hometown as my mother.

What are the chances?

So we are no longer a show.

We are, in fact, a global phenomenon.

If you have a problem with it, talk to Steve Cohen.

Tonight, it is a special Thanksgiving episode.

We're all a little loopy.

We're recording this ahead of time.

But we're looking at what makes a truly killer true crime production.

Now, I don't have to tell you, there are thousands of documentaries, podcasts, probably

too many, I'm probably one too many, Reenactment, streamers, influencers.

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