Tanj Smitheal

I love Dateline as do my friends and family; it's our favorite above all the other newsmagazines on air like 48 hours and 20/20. We have a few suggestions that we hope you will take into consideration and we believe, it's probable, that many of your viewers feel the same way. First, the "Coming Up" part of your show contains spoilers!!! We HATE this and can't fast forward through this part fast enough. The main reason we watch Dateline is to experience the mystery unfold as told by your wonderful commentators: Keith, Andrea, Josh, Dennis, etc. No offense to Lester, Natalie and Craig but please make them STOP. Next, it's an insult to your viewers intelligence when you repeat parts of the storyline over and over. It feels like filler and doesn't help us understand the story, it only annoys us. Believe me...we got it the first time around. This time could be better served expanding or explaining the mystery. Lastly but still very important...we record Dateline reruns on every channel it's offered, but now we have to delete most of them because we've already seen them. Since you've been on the air since 1992, could you please go back further into your archives and bring out some of the older episodes? We've been watching 20/20 episodes from the early 2000's and enjoy them. Please give us a chance to enjoy your older shows! Thank you! We really appreciate your consideration and we hope that we have spoken for some of your other viewers as well.