The shows feature dramatic re-enactments of the events leading up to the person's death as well as the autopsies.

Each episode is created using a direct-to-camera interview with the storyteller, dramatic re-enactments, and host segments and commentary.

These are described as fakes, but the audiences may well have accepted them as dramatic re-enactments.

This dramatic re-enactment will take place at 1.00pm & 3.00pm.

The 2008 film combines narrative-led documentary segments, interwoven by dramatic re-enactments, with actors representing main political figures of the period.

Courtrooms, when not involved in legal matters, are host to dramatic re-enactments of famous court cases.

In addition to straightforward interviews with assorted figures in the case, the film includes photo montages and dramatic re-enactments.

Linder calls his program "new journalism," and insists that nothing is "ad libbed" in the dramatic re-enactments.

But the choreography was in no way a dramatic re-enactment of it.

Mr. Wasserman, who was a pioneer in his field, created programs that ranged from news documentaries to dramatic re-enactments.