Nancy Grace is an American

United States

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 current affairs program

Current affairs (news format)

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 hosted by legal commentator Nancy Grace

Nancy Grace

Nancy Ann Grace is an American legal commentator, television host, television journalist, and former prosecutor. She frequently discusses issues from what she describes as a victims' rights standpoint, with an outspoken style that has won her both praise and condemnation...

 that airs weekdays on HLN which mainly deals with current-day true crime

True crime

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 cases.

Controversies

Grace's comments on the show have garnered significant controversy, most significantly involving the Duke lacrosse case, the suicide of interviewee Melinda Duckett and the death of Caylee Anthony.

Guest hosts

When Nancy goes absent from the show sporadically, other interviewers subsitute for her.

• On January 16, 2009, September 26, 2011, and October 3, 2011, Jane Velez-Mitchell
  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  Jane Velez-Mitchell is an award winning television journalist and bestselling author. She currently has her own show on HLN, Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell . She is often seen commenting on high-profile cases for CNN, TruTV, E! and other national cable TV shows...
  
   hosted the show.
• On February 18, 2011, Sam Champion
  Sam Champion
  Samuel James Champion is the weather anchor of ABC's Good Morning America and weather editor of ABC News.-Early life and education:...
  
   from Good Morning America
  Good Morning America
  Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
  
  hosted the show.
• On June 9, 2010, Pat Lalama hosted the show.