Editing Mystery! (section)

==2008 format change==
In 2008, the series was absorbed into ''[[Masterpiece (TV series)|Masterpiece]]'' (the former ''Masterpiece Theatre'') and began using the banner '''''Masterpiece Mystery!''''' In addition, the theme music was changed. It now carried a signature theme based on its sister program's former theme.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/10/arts/television/10mast.html|title='Masterpiece Theater,' Now in 3 Flavors: Classic, Mystery, Contemporary|work=[[Nytimes.com]]|date=December 10, 2007|access-date=January 22, 2008 | first=Elizabeth | last=Jensen}}</ref> This version is hosted by [[Alan Cumming]].

Rebecca Eaton reflected on the 2008 changes in an interview with Diane Rehm, citing Mobil’s departure, a competitive media landscape, and trouble branding ''Masterpiece Theater'' and ''Mystery!'' to new audiences. Eaton said:

“I realized that this ship of whom I was the captain was at risk of going down, and that I had to do something. And I truly did not know what to do and had no money to do anything anyway. But we got a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS which we were pretty much allowed to do anything with...we spent it on doing some research into how people perceived Masterpiece. And discovered that they used to watch it, they loved it, they regarded it very highly. They weren't watching it so much anymore. They thought it was too hard to find...And a lot of people were put off by the title. They thought, oh it sounds like it will be very challenging. It sounds like homework....We didn't change the content because we realized whenever anybody, particularly younger viewers watched it, watched Madame Bovary or Sense and Sensibility or Bleak House, they loved it. It was just sort of getting past the rather forbidding title of ''Masterpiece Theater'' and the confusing anthology nature.”<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-10-29/rebecca-eaton-making-masterpiece-25-years-behind-scenes-masterpiece-theatre-and-mys|title=Rebecca Eaton: "Making Masterpiece: 25 Years Behind The Scenes At Masterpiece Theatre And Mystery! On PBS" - The Diane Rehm Show|work=The Diane Rehm Show|access-date=December 29, 2015}}</ref>