Being absolved of legal responsibility for his documentary subjects, however, does not make shooting the program any easier.
Just hours before Mr. Klebnikov was fatally shot, the program "Freedom of Speech," the last live political talk show in Russia, broadcast what appeared to be its final show.
"We began to shoot the whole program like MTV," he recalls.
The Australian journalist, who was released in February after spending 400 days in an Egyptian jail cell for reporting on political events following unrest, says the government is shooting the messenger in slamming the program.
I smiled, and a green bar at the bottom of the screen shot up, indicating the program's increasing confidence that it had identified the correct expression.
Leaked studio footage, shot just before the program went live and during breaks, showed the hosts, Meher Bokhari and Mubashir Luqman, chatting cozily with Mr. Hussain, discussing the questions and priming his answers.
But opponents of the hunts said they believe their protests were responsible for fewer deer being killed this year than last year, when 324 were shot, and that the program may end sooner.
At the American Firearms School, the Learn to Shoot program, for novices, costs forty dollars for ninety minutes: a lesson, a gun rental, range time, two targets, and two boxes of bullets.
Then, according to Allen Sabinson, A&E's senior vice president of programming, the network suggested shooting the series on high-definition video.
Or maybe Oprah could shoot a program on Midwestern housewives and ship it over here.
