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APB ISSUED FOR NEW EPISODES OF COPS ON FOX SATURDAY NIGHTS

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KentBrockman

Okay, those programming knuckleheads at FOX have to pull their heads out of the keisters.

Pulling COPS off the air after years and years to show another lame talent show really is a boneheaded mistake. Supposedly new eps of COPS won't return until fall/winter. FOX programmers ought to be locked up!

I miss my Saturday night hot pursuits and foot chases! C'mon FOX, enough already!

Plenty of ticked off viewers:
http://www.facebook.com/copstv?sk=wall

Langley Productions needs to shop COPS around to another network.
 
Fox will have MLB on Saturday nights from mid-May through July.
 
FOX is not doing a good job of showing COPS every Saturday. The viewers of the show are really upset and pissed on what FOX has done. Q-Viva will not be on for much longer. It's all about the bottom line. FOX has already pushed "America's Most Wanted" over to Lifetime; "COPS" could be heading on over to TruTV or G4, where reruns are still playing virtually everyday. Langley owns the show, not FOX.
 
Different strokes for different folks but.....how in the world can one person watch episode after episode of COPS and not be completely bored out of their collective mind? If you've watched more than half-a-dozen programs you've seen them all. It's like watching a big assembly line. Fascinating the first time. Interesting the second time. Maybe one or two new things you missed before the third time. But after that????

Personally, it makes me sick watching so many stupid people. I seriously don't know how the cops can maintain their sanity after a few years of this.

I'd much rather be watching the high-achievers of the world than the bottom-feeders. Probably no coincidence its on Fox though. :D
 
landtuna said:
Different strokes for different folks but.....how in the world can one person watch episode after episode of COPS and not be completely bored out of their collective mind? If you've watched more than half-a-dozen programs you've seen them all. It's like watching a big assembly line. Fascinating the first time. Interesting the second time. Maybe one or two new things you missed before the third time. But after that????

Personally, it makes me sick watching so many stupid people. I seriously don't know how the cops can maintain their sanity after a few years of this.

I'd much rather be watching the high-achievers of the world than the bottom-feeders. Probably no coincidence its on Fox though. :D
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I guess I would say...it's feel-good TV in reverse. In that you're glad you're not that shirtless guy failing to walk a straight line :D.

Also, it's pretty much been the same format for 23 years (beyond the first Broward episodes which just made us feel awkward for having to go into a cop's home life). Three stories, some of them wacky, a few of them amped to 11 action-wise, and a good bit of scenery showing us that not every city or suburb is just McMansions and skyscrapers. The only change over the years has been graphics and HD, and none to the format. Compared to Idol and Dancing which need a new gimmick every few years, the only way you know one COPS from another year to year is by convenience store gas prices, video fade and current observations by the officers.

The thing is, COPS and AMW won Saturday night for Fox for years. Reruns of Terra Nova and this Q-Viva! aren't. That Fox is willing to treat these shows like this after winning for so long is stupid and appalling.
 
landtuna said:
Different strokes for different folks but.....how in the world can one person watch episode after episode of COPS and not be completely bored out of their collective mind? If you've watched more than half-a-dozen programs you've seen them all. It's like watching a big assembly line. Fascinating the first time. Interesting the second time. Maybe one or two new things you missed before the third time. But after that????
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As part of a research project in the 90s, I went on ride-alongs with the SFPD - on various days, and a different times of day. The main thing I came away with - 98% of police work is routine and excruciatingly boring. Granted, Cops and other shows of its kind only show the more interesting police actions, and I did get to see a few. But in my experience, the more "interesting" sitatuations generally involved domestic disputes in which one or more of the people involved were mentally unstable or truly disturbed, but generally no violence - just a lot of yelling and irrational behavior. Usually, the cops took just a few minutes to make sure nobody was in danger, then left, after admonishing the parties involved to keep the volume down.


I really salute police men and women - I wouldn't be able to do a job that was 98% tedium, broke up by the occasional life-threatening situation.
 
Lkeller said:
I really salute police men and women - I wouldn't be able to do a job that was 98% tedium, broke up by the occasional life-threatening situation.
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I think you also just described pilots and perhaps nuclear generating plant operators. ;D

I agree with your salute. After spending only one night on Shore Patrol during my navy days I don't think I'd want their job either.
 
For years FOX had Saturday Nights Locked up! Now they've released COPS and "America's Most Wanted" and I'm afraid it's a big mistake. It was pretty much the only MUST SEE TV in my house all week. Not a smart move FOX. Just not smart.
 
landtuna said:
Different strokes for different folks but.....how in the world can one person watch episode after episode of COPS and not be completely bored out of their collective mind?
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Whenever I watch older episodes I tend to pay more attention to the surroundings than the people. It's interesting to notice the little things like the style of various automobiles or the price of gasoline. COPS is somewhat of a time capsule, imo.
 
The bottom line is Saturday nights are a primetime television wasteland. The days of "The Golden Girls" and "Fantasy Island" are long gone.
 
Skynet74 said:
For years FOX had Saturday Nights Locked up! Now they've released COPS and "America's Most Wanted" and I'm afraid it's a big mistake. It was pretty much the only MUST SEE TV in my house all week. Not a smart move FOX. Just not smart.
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Sure, it's very smart. Why pay premium dollar for programming on a night when NOBODY is watching TV, when you can get half the audience at 10% of the cost? In the executives eyes, they just made Saturday night a more profitable night.

And for those of you who are skeptical, Fox had Saturday night "locked up" with just 1.4% of the audience. They were number 1 for the night with that. On any other night, that would be NBC levels (IE a failure).
 
Not just 1.4%, but 1.4% of an even smaller pie than other nights.
 
I completely understand the thoughts of the original post. The lineup of COPS and AMW was very successful for Fox for more than a decade. By very successful, I mean they won the night in the key demo of 18-49, but it was always with a number that would be considered a failure on any other night of the week. I think Fox was just tired of it and wanted to see if there was any way to get higher ratings on Saturday nights. This reality show has been on par with what they had, but is probably more expensive to produce. Baseball will probably do okay for them if they can run regional coverage of games instead of just one game aired nationally. Perhaps bringing COPS back after a layoff will re-energize the audience for that show. Or.. it may kill it. Who knows.

I guess I give Fox credit for not just standing still. I'm just not sure it's a move I would have made.
 
This is the mistake. FOX was number one on Saturday Nights when hardly anyone watches TV. But at least they were number 1. Why screw around with that?? I just went from watching FOX one night a week, to now watching FOX zero nights a week. I can't imagine that I am the only one.
 
tested said:
I completely understand the thoughts of the original post. The lineup of COPS and AMW was very successful for Fox for more than a decade. By very successful, I mean they won the night in the key demo of 18-49, but it was always with a number that would be considered a failure on any other night of the week. I think Fox was just tired of it and wanted to see if there was any way to get higher ratings on Saturday nights. This reality show has been on par with what they had, but is probably more expensive to produce. Baseball will probably do okay for them if they can run regional coverage of games instead of just one game aired nationally. Perhaps bringing COPS back after a layoff will re-energize the audience for that show. Or.. it may kill it. Who knows.

I guess I give Fox credit for not just standing still. I'm just not sure it's a move I would have made.
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I don't think they are trying to be number 1 on Saturdays, they are trying to be more profitable on Saturdays. Producing Cops, and AMW, especially after as long as it's been on the air, can't be cheap anymore. By running reality programming, or better yet, repeats, they can get half the audience for a quarter of the cost. And in the end, that is all that matters to the executives at Fox (it's all that's ever mattered in entertainment). This is why you see VERY successful shows end their run, even when the audience is larger. Look at The Simpsons as an example of this. Costs have gotten way out of hand, and it is no longer profitable for Fox to make the show, so next year it will end. And if they get something cheaper to replace it, even with a fraction of the audience it will make more money for Fox.

No show is safe from that. CBS has a major hit (number 1 in it's time period) in Two and a Half Men, and is in danger of being cancelled after this season for the very same reason. And House has had so many budget cuts now that it is a shadow of it's former self (they should have ended it last year).
 
COPS was in some ways the ideal Saturday night show, because it was cheap to produce.
No screen writers, no stage hands, no actors making union scale, etc. Just a bunch of
criminals, some underpaid cops, and a guy with a camcorder.

I personally learned a lot from watching COPS. Like I would be the world's worst cop.
The first time I had to answer a domestic call I'd probably shoot them both for being too
stupid to live.

My hat is off to the men and women who can do this job and do it well.
 
One thing that I've noticed watching "COPS" over the years: they really should have hired camerapeople who were in shape! How many times have you seen a cop running after a perp and you hear heavy panting not from the cop, but from the out-of-breath cameraperson? :eek:
 
DToTheJ said:
One thing that I've noticed watching "COPS" over the years: they really should have hired camerapeople who were in shape! How many times have you seen a cop running after a perp and you hear heavy panting not from the cop, but from the out-of-breath cameraperson? :eek:
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When I was a kid, the average Pittsburgh cop was about 55 years old and pushing retirement.
We would take our supply of beer and do our underage drinking in the woods, halfway down
one of the many steep hills around here. Watching a bunch of out-of-shape cops stumbling
through the woods and falling down steep hillsides trying to catch you just made your evening complete! :D

Of course now they have wised-up and mixed in a bunch of younger guys who are in
better shape.
 
An all new COPS is back tonight at 8pm with a repeat at 8:30. Bones airs at 9 and Q'Viva has been banished to late nights due to dismal ratings.
 
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