ABC & Mark Gordon Develop TV Cop Drama

COMMENTS (8)

• I don’t mean to be negative but do we really need another cop show? Is this all that creative minds can write and produce? I know there’s inherent conflict and drama but certainly there must be some other kinds of people, characters, worlds to explore.

  That said, I hope they shoot in L.A. because there just isn’t enough filming going on here anymore.

  Comment by DW — Monday November 1, 2010 @ 7:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • You beat me to it, DW. Soon the only shows on network TV will be about cops, lawyers and doctors — we’re practically there now. If aliens came to earth and only knew about American culture from our network TV shows they would assume these are the only three careers available to people. The sad things, the massive failure of Lone Star is going to ensure the networks make more shows like this, more shows that are safe and predictable. And the networks scratch their heads and wonder why they are losing their audience to cable. They deserve to lose their audience to cable.

    Comment by Rev. Slappy — Monday November 1, 2010 @ 10:43pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Why oh why do male producers think of themselves as being so very female-friendly by creating these shows with these hard-as-nails females? its not a cop thing – good cop shows like Blue Blood or Hill Street Blues had their share of women in authority but it was worked into a larger network of family, lovers, co-workers, exes, etc. I know Fairstein is a popular crime writer but there is being a woman writer and writing a main female character and then there are programs that are female friendly – not always the same thing guys. I mean…we are not watching Chase. Take the hint

    Comment by Wendi L. — Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 8:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• Fairstein and Solarz are writing the script. In all fairness to Mark he has discovered a lot of writers in his day and given them their first chances. Mark is very loyal to writers and almost always takes their side. Mark has also given a lot of women writers their earliest shots. God bless him.

  And every producer and network in town has too many cop shows. That is what the networks feel safe buying. They are the ones who suck.

  The TV studios need to return to development deals for writers. Not Showverall deals but Overall deals. The money they would spend of 50-100 deals they could make back on one hit show. WB would not have hits from Chuck Lorre if he hadn’t had a develpment deal at Fox under Roth.
  WB has raked in a billion dollars easy from Lorre’s work. Giving a handful of producers expensive deals isn’t working. It isn’t generating enough exciting work. Just co opting it. Watering it down.

  Comment by Manager — Monday November 1, 2010 @ 11:13pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Um, what’s the definition of INSANITY again?

  I think I am going to jump into Lake Washington with concrete shoes until Hollywood comes up with a better idea. This cop-show concept, as presented, is baked turd with rancid applesauce glaze. Yum, yum. Eat up boys and girls.

  Comment by bobby the saint — Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 3:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• You can be mean. As a reasonably feminist woman I cringe when I see a pitch for “the first woman _________” It has that feeling of “Outlaw” or the old “Commander in Chief” aka Stuff Nobody Can Relate To. The reason that Greys Anatomy, Army Wives worked is not because they are “female centered” but because they are ensembles. Women lean toward group settings – friends, families, colleagues – more than that one standard bearing figure. Women love a feisty pairing off – a Bones-like scenario – and women like smart resourceful women more than they care about her job.

  Comment by Inger — Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 3:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• Abc needs something better than that crap Detroit 187.

  Comment by Please do it — Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 7:06am PDT  Reply to this post

• It burns, it burns, make it stop!

  Yes, that’s the feeling I get when I see another story about a cop show. I’d rather see a Lost, Mad Men, Walking Dead, Roseann, Cosby Show, Friends, or, hell, a Baywatch, than another cop show!!

  Jeez, we all respect good police officers for their hard work and sacrifice but does every freakin’ TV show need to be about cops?

  And, if the cop show isn’t directly about police officers, it’s about the quirky individuals who help cops solve crimes: Monk, Psych, Bones, Castle, Medium, etc.

  Just how many shows are police related? Isn’t 60% of CBS’s shows all law enforcement related? Three CSI shows. Two NCIS shows. Soon two Criminal Minds shows.

  People wonder why the networks are in such trouble, it’s the lack of imagination and force feeding the public with the same old, same old.

  Why not just start a cable channel called Cop Shows? 24/7 of cops who are dads, moms, or have quirky assistants. Cops who break the rules to get the job done.

  Yeah, can we have more shows with cops who bend the rules? A little torture to get suspects to confess? That would be great!

  Sigh…

  Comment by Roger — Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 1:48pm PDT  Reply to this post