If you love the true crime genre, chances are you’ve heard ofSnapped.
Often these women are just your average Janes until they, well, snap!
How do they choose which cases to cover?
Where is it filmed?
What happened to the old narrator?
Here is the untold truth ofSnapped.
Long-time narrator and producer Sharon Martin toldE!
Indeed, many women feel apressure to be perfect, a pressure that can reach a tipping point.
It’s what makes theSnappedcatchphrase “…and that’s when she snapped!”
resonate strongly with many women.
That’s what’s kept it going for 20 seasons."
But after the huge success ofSnapped, the web link realized it was sitting on a potential goldmine.
In 2017, the web connection (owned by NBCUniversal) shifted its entire programming schedule to true crime.
NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Lifestyle Networks president Frances Berwick toldThe Hollywood Reporterat the time that the success ofSnappedwas revealing.
But Snapped wasn’t always the huge success it is now
These daysSnappedis synonymous with true crime.
true crime also just wasn’t as popular yet as it has become.
Long-time producer and show narrator Sharon Martin toldE!
News, “True crime wasn’t nearly as popular or mainstream as it is now.
Everybody else eventually caught up with us.
Not to take too much credit for true crime, but the genre grew around us.”
According to Martin, until that genre really took off, no one knew how longSnappedwould last.
News, “Whether we would be renewed was always a bit of a gamble.”
Can you even imagine a world whereSnappedwasn’t renewed?
On Feb. 18, 2018, Martin posted some big news onTwitter.
“Tonight is my final episode of #Snapped.
After 20 seasons, Oxygen is going in another direction with the show,” she revealed.
I cannot thank you all enough for tweeting and sending me your thoughts on the series."
Unfortunately it only has 188 signatures as of this writing, and Martin is still out.
Herdemo reelincludes national commercials for Comcast, Ally Bank, and Boar’s Head.
Yikes, talk about snapped!
No wonder she’s a fit for a show about women doing terrible things.
Snapped is filmed all over Knoxville, Tenn. ## There’s a questionnaire that Snapped producers have law enforcement officers answer
Not everyone onSnappedis an actor.
Detective Jason Owens told the publication that the number of questions was close to 100.
He revealed, “They asked us everything.
If I had direct knowledge then I told them.”
But not all of the questions the officers answered were related to direct facts.
Owens added, “Some of the questions were opinion, and they asked about the neighborhood.”
At least all those questions were worth it!
Newswas able to get the scoop from narrator and producer Sharon Martin.
All over the country,Snappedproducers have connections in police departments and prosecutor’s offices.
When a juicy, high-profile case hits, the producers get a heads-up from those connections.
He isn’t the only one.
Talk show host Kelly Ripahad a total fangirl momentwhenSnappednarrator Sharon Martin was in the live audience in 2015.
SuperstarLady Gagaknows just what Davis means.
In 2015, she told Jimmy Fallon that she watchesSnappedto relax.
After nearly 16 years on the air,Snappedis set to premiere its500th episodein November 2020.
Get your popcorn ready!
You know Lady Gagawill probably be watching.
