Globo confirmed the return of his main police program, “Linha Direta”, which had episodes that aired between 1990 and 2007. Originally presented by journalists Domingos Meirelles and Marcelo Rezende, the program will now be picked up by Pedro Bial (who currently presents “Conversation con Bial”), in a return scheduled for 2023.
The announcement was made this Thursday (27/10) on the occasion of an event aimed at the advertising market in Sao Paulo and shared on the company’s Twitter.
The return of the program was revealed in September by Patricia Kogut’s column in the newspaper O Globo, while it was developed by the director Mariano Boni.
The success of the podcast / series on the Evandro case, on Globoplay, would have alerted the company to the public’s interest in the real crime news. And the audience phenomenon of the Daniella Perez murder series, on HBO Max, only confirmed the trend.
In addition, an independent channel that brings together the old editions of “Linha Direta” itself has become a phenomenon on YouTube, with almost 200,000 subscribers and 3 million views in some episodes.
There are still no details on the new production, nor if the attraction will follow the same format of the last years in which it was on the air.
The original version of “Linha Direta” debuted in March 1990 with crime cases in which suspects were on the run from justice. The program included simulations made by actors and witness testimony. This first phase of Linha Direta aired until July of the same year, presented by Hélio Costa.
In 1999 the program returned, this time under the command of Marcelo Rezende (1951-2017) and based on recent news, but also by reconstructing famous cases, such as the murder of Ângela Diniz. Domingos Meirelles took over the program in 2002 and remained until the attraction ended in 2007.
Throughout its exhibition, journalistic production contributed to the arrest of nearly 400 fugitives. In September 2002, representatives of the Brazilian Center for the Defense of Human Rights declared that the attraction was of public interest.
“Linha Direta” also had special editions on cases with supernatural elements, such as the Joelma Building and the Operação Prato.
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– TV Globo 📺 (@tvglobo) October 27, 2022
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