Cops Reloaded
| Cops | |
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| Created by |
John Langley Malcolm Barbour |
| Narrated by | Harry Newman |
| Opening theme | "Bad Boys" by Inner Circle |
| Composer(s) | Michael Lewis (pilot) Nathan Wang (season one) |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 30 |
| No. of episodes | 1,013(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | John Langley Malcolm Barbour (1989–1994) |
| Producer(s) | Andy Thomas (1989) Paul Stojanovich (1989–1990) Bertram van Munster (1990–1997) Murray Jordan (1997–2001) Jimmy Langley (2001–present) Morgan Langley (2007–present) |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Barbour/Langley Productions (1989–1999) Fox Television Stations (1989–2013) 20th Century Fox Television (1989–1992, 1995–2013) 20th Television (1992–1995) Langley Productions (1999–present) Spike Original Productions (2013–present) |
| Distributor |
20th Television Viacom Media Networks |
| Release | |
| Original network |
Fox (1989–2013) Spike (2013–present) |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) (1989–2007), 720p (HDTV) (2007–2013), 1080i (HDTV) (2013–present) |
| Audio format |
Mono (1989–1990) Stereo (1990–present, Spanish dubbing available on SAP for post-2000 episodes) |
| Original release | March 11, 1989 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Cops (stylized as COPS) is an American half-hour documentary/reality legal series that follows police officers, constables, sheriff's deputies, federal agents and state troopers during patrols and other police activities including vice and narcotics stings. It is one of the longest-running television programs in the United States and in May 2011 became the longest-running show on Fox with the announcement that America's Most Wanted was being canceled after 23 years (that show's host, John Walsh also appeared many times on Cops). In 2013, the program moved from Fox to the cable network Spike.
Cops follows the activities of police officers by assigning television camera crews to accompany them as they perform their duties. The show's formula follows the cinéma vérité convention, which does not consist of any narration or scripted dialog, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact. Each episode runs about 30 minutes long and consists of three self-contained segments with no narration, music, and scripts.
Cops was created by John Langley and Malcolm Barbour, who tried, unsuccessfully, for several years, to get a network to carry the program. When a television writers' strike paralyzed the networks in the late-1980s, and forced them to find other kinds of programming, the young Fox Television network picked up the low-cost Cops program (which had no union writers).
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