The veteran reality series ends after 31 years.
June 9, 2020
It is being reported that Paramount Network has cancelled Cops. The news is not a complete surprise, as the show had already been pulled from the air in the wake of the George Floyd's death and the ensuing protests against police brutality.
One of the first ever reality-based television shows, Cops premiered in 1989 on Fox where it aired for 24 years before being cancelled. But it wasn't long until the series was revived by Spike TV, now known as Paramount Network. The show had been scheduled to run longer than the 32 seasons it will now stop at, but its 33rd season - originally slated for a debut yesterday - will likely never see the light of day.
With no host or narration, Cops depends completely on the police officers and the footage shot to capture each story as it unfolds. Over the course of its time on the air, the series drew consistent viewership and regularly won its time slot on Saturday nights.
Sue Pist
06/10/20 at 02:38pm
So stupid to cancel the show. Such a bunch of whiny cry babies so many people have become in this country. Nobody has the backbone to just say "shut up already." One bad apple does not spoil the whole bunch. Who do people think they are going to call...Ghostbusters?!
michael dobey
06/10/20 at 02:09pm
wow alice , all cops are shit? no ... bad ones are for sure. Reform things. But all cops are not shit. many are fine people and I would say that you are a very privileged person who lives in a nice area , well not me. . Did you ever say ' you know gangs kill little kids and rape women ' they are all shit? I bet not. 14,000 deaths by gang members gets no press. two of my neighbors were raped and killed by gang members. I was glad the cops arrested them. no cops , more raped women. do you get it yet? I want more cops in my bario not less. stop the slaughter , stop the gangs. stop the raping , stop the gangs. stop the crack, stop the meth abused kids, , stop the looters, stop the thugs, stop the bad cops too but let the good ones get the gangs. the end.
michael dobey
06/10/20 at 01:58pm
well. It was an ok show. But to cancel it now is a statement of cowardness. As in some cops are bad , (WIHICH SOME are ) so lets cancel this and go along with rioting mobs and bizaare politicians who let rioters kill people? and who demand no cops at all? How lame.
Ok What
06/10/20 at 01:50pm
(Dragnet's law-and-order message was close to Webb’s heart, but he avoided politics. “It’s not up to me to be politically involved,” Webb said. “It's not a question of rightist or leftist. The underlying theme is: Crime doesn’t pay. We take no sides.”)
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Most cop shows are like this. Dick Wolf is a conservative, but often has characters argue from the left. That's called writing good fiction. Any show that speaks from just one side of the fence, or isn't interesting as a work of fiction, is doomed to failure.
Paulh
06/10/20 at 01:49pm
MoeB is the type of person who preaches to others on how to act, but can't act civilly himself. Making everything about race, and as soon as something doesn't go his way he pulls out the race card, instead of blaming himself.
What a bigot
I'mNeverWrong
06/10/20 at 12:20pm
---- "It isn't a profession that should make someone automatically a hero, it should be what you do while you are wearing that uniform." --------
Well said (er posted) MoeB.
MoeB
06/10/20 at 11:21am
In all honesty, the show should not have been cancelled for anything other than it just being boring and not something a person with any kind of common sense would want to watch. You have to understand, since i'm not white and privileged, if I want to see an episode of cops I'll just walk outside. And I can see the same garbage in real life as they show on TV. Really all the show does is give other people who watched it the opportunity to feel elite or better than. And give them the opportunity to say to themselves "i'm not one of THOSE people." But they're cheating on their husbands/wives or beating their kids, committing some type of fraud that's ok because it's for business or something else that's ok to do in a white world because well you're white.
It isn't a profession that should make someone automatically a hero, it should be what you do while you are wearing that uniform.
Just Keith
06/10/20 at 09:09am
So now the only cop shows on tv will be scripted, left-wing Hollywood propaganda.
K
06/10/20 at 09:03am
Political BS in order to progress the agenda of complete political control.
Steve
06/10/20 at 08:53am
I guess now we know what they gonna do when we come for them...
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