Love the repeated tv episodes. Listening to Brooke is very hard for me. Her presentation doesn’t feel right and I do not really care for her interjecting her own opinions. If this was “Brooke’s True Crime Podcast” I’d be fine with it. But being under the Cold Case Files name it feels like it takes away from the straight forward nature of the original show. I don’t need to know her takes on what she does when a police office is behind her or why she thinks a person acts a certain way or what she thinks she heard in a 911 pr interrogation recording. Just tell the story.

Brooke is the first host of cold case and is still the best host forever. For the people that don’t like her move on to another podcast. And stop talking about it. You sound pathetic. Brooke should be the only host for cold case.

Ms Giddings must be the beneficiary of nepotism The story lines are exactly from the show so no research needed The narration is like an 8th grade school presentation The golden-throated Bill Curtis was/is CCF! Hey “I Survived “ Start your own podcast!!

Why do they keep her? Unlistenable. Unsubscribe.

If this was an amateur podcast the podcast host delivery would be explainable but they sound distracted, unpracticed and unfamiliar with their material.

I love listening to this podcast and I love the I survive stories.

There’s one certain podcaster that has a weird choppy delivery which makes it really hard to listen to this. She says a few words at a time then has these weirs pauses, maybe for dramatic effect but it doesn’t work at all. Very difficult to listen ti but the other podcaster has a smooth delivery so I just listen to this when she’s hosting.

Informative and I love the hosts voice

Nothing new and presented with flat affect.

She talks her mind way to much.

I guess you didn’t like my last review and took it down since It doesn’t come up to be edited anymore LOL!!! Didn’t hurt your sensitive feelings.

I used to love this podcast until they started the I survived episodes.

Previous shows are repeated in ridiculous volume. I feel like I have found the same repeated shows within just one season. I would rather wait longer between releases than hear the same show…even a second time. I do hope the podcast creators reads the constructive criticism and stops repeating the same show. I am waivering on deleting the podcast from my list. The content is interesting to listen to, but only ONE time.

Hate the new background noises and sound effects. No longer soothing or easy to listen to.

I like the content and I like Brooke but there are way too many ads.

New host with the same issues. Now half the episodes are “I Survived” or “you may be interested in”. This podcast has nothing to do with the original podcast. Each podcast is overloaded with ads. I timed them and about 10-15% of each podcast is nothing but ads.

I listen to this podcast while I’m working and nothing is more frustrating than having to skip through an episode that has already been played. I go through this every day. 3 of the same I survived cases keep getting replayed until I have to skip them to find the next episode. The I survived cases aren’t bad by any means only when it’s being played 4 times over. Also too many ads.

I LOVE true crime, but this was a dud. Not many details into the case and a lot of fluffy nonsense.

Love the host and the way the stories are laid out. But half the episode is ads. It’s infuriating.

Nice to have new episodes but the corny and dramatic background music is distracting.

The content to commercial ratio is the worst I’ve ever seen.

I subscribed to this show for the cold case files. However, now there are more and more episodes that hold no interest to me. I don’t know why they changed but it is no longer good. I will be unfollowing

Right along liberal logic lines… this guy killed because life is hard for- insert your victim group…. Unfollow

Too many non cold case podcasts. Literally there was an episode about anime? I’m still subscribed hoping it will get better (like it used to be), but if this is how it’s going to be from now on, you’ll be losing a lot of subscribers!

You can tell she’s just reading and there is no inflection in her voice. Kind of monotone. Do like the stories just not the boring voice. I believe it’s Brooke that is just reading and we don’t need her personal opinions.

Since Brooke gittings doesn’t host this podcast the show drastically went downhill now the most recent episode is talking about anime and who decided to add I survived its time to unfollow now

The hosts’ voices all sound similar but, for some reason, that Brook’s voice grates. Her seemingly self importance, injecting her hopes, fears, and know-it-all “experiences” makes it all the more annoying. Nearly every time I hear “I’m Brook”, I skip. I think the reason the original was so successful was Bill Cutis’ soothing voice. Paula does a great job, the others, excepting Brook, do a decent job.

Love the *actual* Cold Case Files podcasts. Soooo sick of them playing things that aren’t CCF, which I believe is just to keep people listening. Some of us already subscribe to other podcasts (ie I Survived) and don’t need the exact same podcast twice in one week. Stick to what you’re supposed to be playing.

The new host is so much better. I can actually listen again!

Far too many commercials! They are back to back to back. Ugh. But the podcast is great otherwise.

Four commercials under an hour is just too many

I started watching the shows a few years back and was so excited when I saw there was a podcast about two years ago. Bill Curtis 11/10 has the best delivery, best voice, and doesn’t give opinionated commentary. The other two hosts aren’t that bad but they talk with no emotion, and way too many opinions that honestly we don’t need or care about. Also the “I survived” episodes should be a separate show completely. They are NOT cold cases and have no real connection to the show or podcast. If you want to put out more content I suggest making episodes for cold cases that haven’t been solved yet. But a series where people survive bad situations ain’t it

The narrator. She’s as dry as toast. She just reads and no personality is present when she does so. I find myself not hearing much of the podcast because her vocal manner bores me so much. Too bad. I always loved Bill Kurtis. Why can’t they get someone like him to narrate the content of this podcast? Someone who can hold the listeners’s attention!

Updated 5 March ‘24 to add: I don’t mind the new narrator (I like her voice better than Paula’s), but the quality of the audio of her segments is not great. Lots of hiss, feels like a low bitrate or something. The interview segments are fine so I know it’s not my connection. Thank goodness that extra content has been nixed! — I don’t mind Brooke’s narration (I was a listener of her other podcast, and I like her voice better than the new gal) and am amused at the array of adjectives that she uses to describe the legendary Bill Kurtis… but what is up with the extra content lately tacked at the end? Twice as long as the episode itself! And no information in the show notes. I skip over it.

I enjoy the series but only the cold case files. I can’t consistently listen to stories of women being brutally SA’d. Maybe have a separate feed for the I Survived series.

My only complaint is the constant reposting of the I Survived stories. I love them but it is not necessary to repost them. If you don’t have another one ready just say that.

Please, please, please take some radio broadcast speaking lessons or something. Narrator speaks to fast, mumbles, and drops ‘t’s. Sloppy as all get out.

The older episodes, which were professionally produced for TV and hosted by Bill Kurtis are great. The other two hosts, however, leave a lot to be desired. Brooke was the original replacement for Bill Kurtis, then there was another host briefly, then Brooke again. Both of the replacement hosts aren’t really worth listening to in my opinion. In particular, Brooke, who is a social worker without any type of background as a psychiatrist or psychologist or whatever, really expresses her personal opinions about the subpar mental health system in the US and even goes into deep dives on racial injustice and a myriad of topics that aren’t necessarily germane to the case that is being covered. She is obviously entitled to her personal opinion, but if she is representing A&E, then they need to rein her in. If she wants to host her own podcast to express her opinion like every other jamoke out there, then she should do that. However, for the A&E podcast, she needs to refrain from trying to make it the Brooke Show. I was following this show for several years, but I’ve now unfollowed it due to poor replacement podcasts and because the “I Survived” episodes are trash

I love the show but the writing is complete dog turds. She will be reading, make a statement then a question like she’s asking the listeners, almost asking to have the audience convinced.

If Brooke is narrating, you might as well turn it off. Apart from the monotonous delivery, you’re treated to Brooke’s smug, self-righteous preaching with which she judges everyone’s attitudes and comments by her own infallible moral compass. You can tell she completed a social work degree, which in the U.S. is an indoctrination program. I can’t even.

Her monotone voice is unbearable. And her latest kick of going on and on about mundane facts, such as how one reacts to cocaine (we’re all well aware! 🙄) is obnoxious and I skip over it. Get a new host or only play Bill Curtis.

Wow, have a few commercials!! I wish the woman who narrates these episodes would learn the difference between just saying all the words as fast as she can, and developing a more professional way to deliver the words. A slower pace and better enunciation. It takes practice and objectively listening to herself.

The host, Brooke, is AWFUL. It’s like listening to someone hosting their high school radio station. The insane amount of intrusive commercials that literally interrupt the show in mid sentence and run throughout the episodes were the final straw. I love Cold Case Files the show, but I’m noping out on this amateurish incarnation.

Why are all of these episodes repeats? Even the “new” episodes are old ones that have been reopened. I’m not a fan of constant repeats! What is going on?

Brook’s voice is terrible.please get someone who has a better voice

I don’t enjoy the I Survived stories. I listened to one or two, but no more. They are not as polished and well done as CCF. Please don’t include them in this podcast. I just skip over them. Thank you.

Keep them coming, very interesting. Glad all these people survived.

If you like commercials this is the podcast for you. More commercials than podcast!!!!!!!!

No more I Survived stories. The Cold Case Files are why I started listening to the podcast. I loved the tv show when I was younger and love listening to stories re-told in the pod. I Survived is completely different. Those stories are not the same as CCF. Please stop including them in the podcast.

I really like listening to the cold case files, but I cannot listen to the “I Survived” pods. Since when did we start adding the “I survived” pods to the Cold Case? Combining two demographics isn’t working.