Two months after suspending production on disgraced comedian Louis C.K.’s animated comedy series Cops,TBS has officially pulled the plug on the series.
The move was expected. Production offices had been closed, and the animators on the project were laid off just before Thanksgiving.
TBS had given a 10-episode…
In celebration of the landmark 1,000th episode of Cops, Spike next month will air a special titled Cops Beyond the Bust. Hosted by Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews, the special, which will be filmed before a live audience, will includes historical clips from the run of the series as well as reunions of officers and…
EXCLUSIVE: Ruben Fleischer is attached to directCOPS, a feature adaptation of the famous police reality procedural TV series. The idea is to turn that vibe — best known for its catchy theme song — into an edgy narrative feature with a buddy comedy bent on the order of a Lethal Weapon. Cameron Fay will write the…
Spike TV will air a one-hour clip show special Saturday featuring the work of longtime Cops audio technician Bryce Dion, who was killed during production last month when he was shot during filming of a robbery in progress at a Wendy’s restaurant in Omaha, NE.
The special episode, from Cops producer Langley…
UPDATE, with Omaha police chief news conference: "This was a friendly-fire situation. It was an officer’s round that struck Mr. Dion,” Omaha Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said at a news conference that just wrapped, discussing the shooting death of Cops crew member Bryce Dion last night during police response to a…
UPDATED: With little fanfare, Saturday’s hourlong season finale of Cops actually marked the venerable docu-reality series’ last original airing on Fox. The network signaled that the end was near when it cut back significantly the order for this season to accommodate sports coverage on Saturday. Cops‘ current 25th…
Fox‘s long-running docu-reality series Cops will kick off its 25th season December 15 after more than half a year off the air. For 28 of the 32 weeks since mid-April, Fox Sports has taken over Saturday night or NASCAR, MLB, NFL, college football and UFC coverage.Cops, the last remaining original entertainment…
Steven W. Kiger has sued Langley Productions, alleging he was wrongfully fired from the Fox reality show because he was over 40 and made too much money. Kiger claims in the Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit (read it here) that he was an exemplary employee who had worked for the Cops producer for 22 years. The…
When Fox’s Cops premiered in 1989, there were original series on all of the Big 4 networks. By the turn of the century, only Fox and CBS were carrying first-run series, with NBC and ABC surrendering the night to movies. By the mid-2000s, every network but Fox had switched to a mix of series repeats/movies/newsmagazines…
