Crimewatch until Cook's departure in June 1995. Cook was replaced by Jill Dando. After Dando was murdered in April 1999, Ross hosted "Crimewatch" alone until January 2000 when Fiona Bruce subsequently joined the show. Kirsty Young and Matthew Amroliwala replaced Ross and Bruce following their departures in 2007. It was announced on 15 October 2008 that the BBC would move the production of shows such as "Crimewatch" to studios in Cardiff. Young and Amroliwala remained as the lead presenters until 2015. Following a brief period with guest presenter Sophie Raworth in 2016, it was announced that the show would relaunch in
Crimewatch Crimewatch Crimewatch (formerly Crimewatch UK) was a British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was originally broadcast once a month on BBC One, although in more recent years; it was usually broadcast roughly once every two months. "Crimewatch" was first broadcast on 7 June 1984, and is based on the German TV show "Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst" (which translates as "File Reference XY … Unsolved"). Nick Ross and Sue Cook presented the show for the first eleven years,