The new narrator is sounds like he's dispassionately reporting an urgent news story instead of an intimate story about the mysterious disappearance of the person & how it has affected everyone involved from family/friends to law enforcement to suspects.
It feels like a different show. I think its the same narrator from Last Seen Alive, which seemed to be the channel's poor attempt to make a show that everyone already liked better by making it pseudo-live & therefore more exciting. Didn't work in my opinion.
This has always been a show about stories of loss & mystery but the new narrator makes it seem more like one of the shows about hunting predators & leads. The story telling seems to be lost.
I was looking forward to this show coming back. I'll give it another shot, but they may have lost me with the new tone.
& yes, I also miss the gong & the original background music.