Introducing; American Hostage

Scene of the Crime

AbJack Entertainment

True Crime

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Introducing; American Hostage

• In the series premiere, radio DJ Fred Heckman (Jon Hamm) receives an unexpected call from a listener that turns his life upside down.

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, this is Mike Morford, one of the producers I've seen in the crime.
0:05.5	I just started listening to this new True Crime podcast, American Hostage.
0:10.2	And honestly, I'm so happy I can binge it all at once because every episode leaves you
0:14.6	hanging.
0:16.4	Setting in the Annapolis in 1977, American Hostage is a suspenseful true story starring
0:22.2	John Hamm as Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who is forced into the middle
0:27.2	of a life or death crisis when a hostage taker, Tony Carritzis, demands to be interviewed
0:32.6	live on his popular radio and news program.
0:35.7	Through Heckman's radio show, Carritzis gradually becomes a media sensation and an unexpected
0:41.2	national hero during a nail-biting 63-hour police standoff.
0:46.2	I'm about to play for your preview of American Hostage, while you're listening, follow American
0:51.2	Hostage wherever you get your podcast, or you can binge the entire season right now
0:55.5	on Amazon Music or Wondering Plus.
0:58.4	Enjoy the preview, and we'll see you back here soon.
1:05.1	The seven-second delay for live television was introduced in 1975 by NBC so that Richard
1:11.0	Pryor could host Saturday Night Live without the network getting fined for all of his obscenities.
1:16.6	The delay would also be useful if a man were to be shot point blank in the head, live
1:22.5	on national television.
1:50.2	Yes, this is the police, is Lieutenant Collins there, well who you got there, who you got
2:02.0	there ranked high enough to take this call, all right I'm going to tell you now and you're
2:14.4	going to listen good and I don't repeat myself, so you listen up now, you understand?
2:19.2	Yes, I'm listening.
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