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Spike Picks Up John Langley Cop Show, 3 Other Reality Series, Renews ‘Repo Games’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 10, 2011 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: John Langley, Repo Games, Spike TV, TV Pickups, TV Renewals, World's Worst Tenants
Nellie Andreeva

Spike TV has greenlighted four new reality series: Undercover Stings from Cops creator John Langley, about cops orchestrating sting operations; Big Easy Justice from Al Roker and Jennifer Lopez’s production companies, about a New Orleans bounty hunter; American Digger from the producers of Spike’s hit Auction Hunters, about a relic hunter digging up people’s properties for histotic artifacts; and World’s Worst Tenants from Zoo Prods., about a professional evictor. Additionally, Spike has ordered 20 more episodes of the SallyAnn Salsano-produced Repo Games. Sharon Levy, Spike’s EVP original series, said that the new shows are part of the network’s push to expand its core men 18-34 demo to the older men 34-49 demographic that was launched with such recent series as Auction Hunters, Bar Rescue and Repo Games. In primetime, Spike’s median age is currently 40, up from 38 last year. The median age for the network’s highest-rated unscripted original, Auction Hunters, is 41; for Bar Rescue it’s 42. “We have had success in our quest to broaden out our audience,” she said. “The new series continue that and hone our brand as a destination for dynamic characters that exist in high risk/high reward situations.” The goal is to have 52 weeks of originals on Spike every year, she added. Here are detailed descriptions of the new series, including the sizes of their orders: READ MORE »

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‘Cops’ Creator John Langley Plots Faulkner ‘Sanctuary’ Adaptation With Roger Avary

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 29, 2011 @ 9:23am PDTTags: John Langley, Sanctuary, William Faulkner
Mike Fleming

John Langley, the producer best known for creating and exec producing the long-running reality series Cops, has hired Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary to adapt the William Faulkner novel Sanctuary for a feature. Langley, who most recently produced the features … Read More »

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