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Genre | |
Created by | David Slack |
Based on | "Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans?" (article) by David Amsden |
Developed by | Matt Nix |
Written by | David Slack Trey Callaway Matt Nix |
Directed by |
Len Wiseman Duane Clark |
Starring |
Justin Kirk Natalie Martinez Caitlin Stasey Taylor Handley Eric Winter Ernie Hudson |
Composer(s) |
Jon Ehrlich Jason Derlatka |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 3 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Matt Nix Robert Friedman Todd Hoffman Dennis Kim David Slack Len Wiseman Trey Callaway |
Producer(s) | Margot Lulick |
Location(s) | Chicago, Illinois |
Cinematography | Glenn Keenan Bart Tau |
Editor(s) | Andrew Coutts Brandon Lott Jimmy Hill Pietro Cecchini |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company(s) | Bungalow Media + Entertainment Sketch Films Flying Glass of Milk Productions 20th Century Fox Television |
Distributor | 20th Television |
Release | |
Original network | FOX |
Original release | February 6, 2017 | – present
APB (short for "all-points-bulletin") is an American procedural drama broadcast on FOX during the 2016–17 season. A first trailer was released on May 16, 2016. The series premiered on February 6, 2017.
A tech billionaire is given control over a Chicago Police district, hoping to close the file of a murder of a close friend and his company's CFO. The story is loosely based on the New York Times Magazine article "Who Runs the Streets of New Orleans?"
Opening Introduction:
Fox ordered the pilot of David Slack's police procedural about a tech billionaire who purchases a troubled police precinct.Matt Nix was hired to take over as showrunner on March 24, 2016.
On February 12, 2016, Natalie Martinez was cast as Theresa Murphy. On February 22, 2016, Caitlin Stasey was cast as Ada Hamilton. On March 1, 2016, Taylor Handley was cast as Officer Roderick Brandt. On March 11, 2016, Justin Kirk and Eric Winter were cast as Gideon Reeves and Sgt. Tom Murphy respectively. On March 15, 2016, Ernie Hudson was cast as Sgt. Ed Conrad.
Filming was temporarily shut down when Slack left the show over creative differences sometime before March 25, 2016, as Nix is now in charge. FOX announced that season one of the show would be shot in Chicago on May 11, 2016 and shortly thereafter, Trey Callaway was announced as co-showrunner of the series with Nix.
Internationally, the series premiered in Australia on FOX8 on February 16, 2017. And in New Zealand, it will soon debut on TV One.