Spike TV Orders New Bunim-Murray Reality Series

NEW YORK, February 20:
Spike TV has ordered 10 one-hour episodes of a new reality series from
Bunim-Murray Productions that sees amateur sleuths trying to solve real
homicides.

Murder is slated to premiere this summer. Each episode
begins with series host, Detective Tommy Le Noir, escorting two groups of
civilians into an exact replica crime scene pulled from the files of an
existing homicide case. The teams have the opportunity to assess the crime
scene and collect evidence, and will receive a list of potential suspects. The
teams also meet with a coroner who reviews the findings of the original autopsy
report. The contestants are given 48 hours to complete their investigation, collect
and catalogue their evidence and identify the murderer. Each week, the group
that made the correct, or more compelling, case, will have a donation made in
their names to a selected victim's charity.

"For the viewer, Murder fuses the authenticity of a real-life crime scene
with the suspense of trying to solve the murder before the contestants on the
show," said Jon Murray, the executive producer and chairman and president
of Bunim-Murray Productions.