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“Days of Our Knives” programming block brings iconic soap stars to Investigation Discovery

August 22, 2012 | By Lori Acken
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Happy news, soap fans! Josh Lewis and Reva Shane are coming back to daytime TV! And John Black and Hope Williams Brady, too (aw, no Bo?)! And Jack Deveraux, Scotty Baldwin, Bobby Spencer, Lucy Coe and other iconic faves. And they’re all on the same channel, too! OK, the actors who played those iconic soap characters are back — as hosts of Investigation Discovery’s new five-week daytime programming block “Days of our Knives” which premieres Monday, Aug. 20 at 1pm ET/PT. Recognizing that we ladies are crazy about the net’s original true-crime programming — and hoping to lure devoted daytime fans eager to [...]

ID’s “Evil, I” traces deadly deeds from the eyes of killers

June 15, 2012 | By Karl Paloucek
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Investigation Discovery has to be one of the bloodiest networks on television. (Aside from History back in its all-Hitler, all-the-time days, of course.) But it’s one of those networks that, because of the evil at the epicenter of so much of its programming, we find intrinsically fascinating. Tonight, one of the most evil-imbued — and therefore potentially tantalizing — programs to surface on ID premieres. Evil, I debuts with back-to-back episodes at 10pm and 10:30pm, and seeks to plumb the depths of the murderer’s mind, retracing actual serial killings from a first-person perspective. Each episode of Evil, I employs interviews [...]

ID’s “Facing Evil With Candice DeLong” returns for Season 2

November 18, 2011 | By Karl Paloucek
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By Karl J. Paloucek Follow @ChannelGuideK There’s been a lot of talk about Black Friday this year, about how it’s starting to creep its way into the Thanksgiving holiday. Some would say that’s evil, but it’s still far from the evil that Investigation Discovery is planning to serve up for that day. As part of its annual Black Widows Week, the network will cap off a weeklong marathon of Deadly Women with the Season 2 premiere of Facing Evil With Candice DeLong Friday, Nov. 25 at 9pm ET/PT. The series puts host DeLong, a veteran FBI investigator and psychiatric nurse, [...]

“Sin by Silence” spotlights domestic violence

October 5, 2011 | By Karl Paloucek
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Women are going to prison at an alarming rate. Over the last quarter century, they’ve represented the fastest-growing segment of America’s prison population, and of that entire group, nearly 80 percent are survivors of domestic violence. For many of these women, the path to prison started with abuse in the home and ends with a justice system that prohibits evidence of battery from being used in their own legal defense. A new documentary by director Olivia Klaus, Sin by Silence — premiering on Investigation Discovery Oct. 17 — focuses on the people behind those statistics, and shows how the law [...]