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117-460: On December 1, 2020, Disney announced that the label was folded into 20th Television . Fox Television Studios, Inc. was a television production subsidiary of Fox Entertainment Group , the flagship entertainment division of 21st Century Fox , the unofficial production arm of Fox and the secondary production arm of 20th Century Fox Television , which is itself the television arm of 20th Century Fox Film Corporation . Fox Television Studios (FTVS)

234-580: A Fox programming executive who would one day become president of the Fox Television Stations Group and later USA Network . Chao liked the concept and pitched it to Barry Diller , then Chief Executive Officer of the Fox Network. Malcolm Barbour left from producing Cops in 1994. A Writers Guild of America strike was occurring at the time and the network needed new material. An unscripted show that did not require writers

351-747: A typewriter -styled logo similar to the previous Fox 21 and Fox 21 Television Studios brandings. The first and only production under the name was the Hulu film Books of Blood . Less than four months following this change, on December 1, 2020, Walt Disney Television head Dana Walden announced a further reorganization which will see the newly renamed division wound up, with Salke transitioning to an overall producing deal with Disney Television Studios, and remaining operations absorbed into 20th Television . 20th Television 20th Television, Inc. (formerly known as TCF Television Productions , 20th Century-Fox Television , and 20th Century Fox Television )

468-718: A 20% stake in New Regency Production's parent corporation, Fox Studios formed a joint venture, Regency Television , by 2000, managed by Gail Berman . Another production unit formed was Fox Television Studios Productions (FTSP) under Lisa Berger. Early output by the individual units, or "pods", were FTSP's Son of the Beach for FX, The Hughleys by G-JS and Regency had Malcolm in the Middle . The pod model evolved into five divisions: alternative, scripted, international, Fox World and Regency Television : Eventually

585-641: A 5-year agreement with the studio, with the ability to produce television series, the first and third to be on the ABC television network and the second and fourth to be on the Fox television network, and so on. The first two projects to come out of the deal were ABC's The Practice and Fox's Ally McBeal . In 1996, Peter Roth was transferred to becoming president of Fox Entertainment. Chris Carter , writer/producer of The X-Files also extended its contract with 20th Century Fox Television. The first project to come out of

702-437: A Box" (season 28, episode 20, originally aired December 12, 2015) featured Atlanta Police Department Officer Garrett Rolfe, who in 2020 was charged with the killing of Rayshard Brooks during a driving under the influence investigation. In September 2020, Cops resumed production. The new episodes were being produced for international syndication and to fulfill contracts overseas that had not expired; Langley did not secure

819-510: A contract with 20th Century Fox Television. In 1997, MTM Enterprises became part of 20th Century Fox Television. MTM at that time was producing three shows The Pretender for NBC, and Good News and Sparks for UPN , at primetime, after layoffs hit at MTM's syndicated unit. Later that year, Fox established another television production company, Fox Television Studios to house smaller production units, under executive David Grant. Also, producer Barbara Hall inked an overall deal with

936-473: A deal with the studio. Other series of the early 80s, like Hagen , Breaking Away , Ladies' Man , Jessica Novak , 9 to 5 , It's Not Easy , Emerald Point N.A.S. and AfterMASH did not fare well in the ratings, although AfterMASH was initially a minor hit, especially in its first season, and 9 to 5 did well in syndication after being a minor network hit in its original ABC run. In 1984, James L. Brooks and his Gracie Films company

1053-474: A deal/joint venture with Fox World to launch a northern European-based production company. On November 22, 2004, Hayley Babcock was named senior vice president of production at the Fox World studio, while Daniella Welteke would remain as head of the division. Fox Lab was a low-profile production sub-division of 20th Television , originally formed in 1986 as Fox Television Stations Productions (or FTSP) and

1170-427: A disclaimer. Beginning with later episodes of season 2, the wording was: Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of law enforcement. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The disclaimer in the first two seasons was slightly different: " Cops is filmed on location as it happens. All suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law." Burt Lancaster provided

1287-468: A domestic distributor until 2021. Rocket Rights picked up the show for distribution outside the United States in early-2021, with Langley's distribution unit, Langley Television Distribution (as of 2021) handling sales in the United States. On September 13, 2021, it was announced that Fox Nation had picked up the show. The 33rd season premiered on October 1, 2021. Fox Nation would then premiere

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1404-483: A female dispatcher replies, "132 and Bush. Cover's Code 3." Another woman says, "Units 25, 14 can transmit on Tac 2", and the dispatcher replies, "Okay, we'll still send it Code 3." Then an instrumental version of "Bad Boys" plays over the credits. On the first season of Cops , instead of "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint", it was a police radio excerpt from the Broward County, Florida Sheriff's Office. In

1521-472: A few instances of cinéma vérité productions documenting the work of police officers, such as Roger Graef 's Police in 1982. In the late 1980s, after producing the live syndicated specials American Vice: The Doping of a Nation , Murder: Live From Death Row , and Devil's Worship: Exposing Satan's Underground all with Geraldo Rivera , Langley and Barbour pitched the Cops show concept to Stephen Chao ,

1638-460: A general news network as NewsNation under new ownership, also decided to stop carrying the show at the end of its existing carriage contract, which happened to terminate by coincidence on June 30, 2020. Disney Media Distribution , which syndicates the FTSP-era episodes under its former name of 20th Television to local television stations, replaced the series for the remainder of the summer with

1755-621: A hit with Burn Notice on USA Network. In August 2010, Dave Madden was appointed to head the unit, where he evenly increased its production slates until he was appointed as president of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting in August 2014. Fox World (formerly Fox Television Studios International) was a television production company formed in 2000 as a division of Fox Television Studios (FTVS). The company produced international versions of its reality television programs such as Joe Millionaire and Temptation Island . On March 5, 2001, SBS inked

1872-578: A hit. The 1967–68 season was similarly poor for Fox, as it only had two new shows, Custer and Judd, for the Defense , both for ABC. Although Custer bombed, Judd, for the Defense was initially popular. It was cancelled after only two seasons. Fox also expanded its output to commission a Saturday morning show in collaboration with Filmation , Journey to the Center of the Earth . The 1968–69 season

1989-560: A jailer's hand. Authorities gave Arias a plea bargain, and she pleaded no contest to reduced charges, and they sentenced her to a maximum of six years in jail through concurrent sentencing. Bryce Dion's brother, Trevor Dion, filed a lawsuit in February 2016 against the City of Omaha, alleging that inadequate communication and coordination between dispatchers and the officers arriving at the scene contributed to Dion's death. The suit also blames

2106-475: A live special called Cops: Beyond the Bust , hosted by Terry Crews (who plays a police sergeant in the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine ), which included historical clips from the run of the program as well as reunions of officers and the suspects that they arrested. The date of the 1,000th episode also marked a shift of episode premieres from Saturdays to Mondays. The show follows officers in 140 different cities in

2223-468: A number of successful television programs during the 1970s and 1980s. Rights to its 1970 and 1990 library including The Mary Tyler Moore Show (and its spinoff Rhoda ) are handled by CBS Media Ventures . Four Star Television , also called Four Star International , is an American television production company. Founded in 1952 as Four Star Productions by prominent Hollywood actors Dick Powell , David Niven , Charles Boyer , and Joel McCrea , it

2340-592: A pact with National Telefilm Associates (NTA) to produce How to Marry a Millionaire , which was based on the 1953 movie of the same name, and Man Without a Gun . NTA served as distributor of the series, which were to play on the NTA Film Network . In 1958, the company was renamed to 20th Century-Fox Television . Around the same time, Martin Manulis , producer of CBS' Playhouse 90 , joined 20th Century-Fox as head of television. Under Manulis' watch,

2457-492: A rape suspect fled and outran officers, only to have the cameraman follow him the entire time, until police caught up to the suspect and subdued him (season 10, episode 19). In an episode of season 14 (2001–2002), during the arrest of a man after a car chase in Hillsborough County, Florida , the sound mixer held the suspect's sister away from the deputy after she tried to intervene in her brother's arrest. During

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2574-429: A reorganization of Walt Disney Television following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney , the studio was renamed Touchstone Television — reviving a brand dormant since the previous Touchstone Television was renamed ABC Studios in 2007. ABC Studios had also merged with the previous iteration of ABC Signature Studios to form the current iteration of ABC Signature . The renamed Touchstone Television studio retains

2691-445: A separate entity from 20th Century Fox. Both companies were subsidiaries of News Corporation unit Fox Inc.; the move was made to separate the television productions from the movie studio in order to increase the latter's output. For the 1989–90 season, 20th Television was distributing programs from Steven Bochco Productions that were aired on ABC. The first to come out of the deal was Doogie Howser, M.D. , which lasted four seasons on

2808-416: A three month hiatus, the show returned on October 6. Season 36 would premiere on April 5, 2024 with several episodes featuring beach patrol officers during spring break . Cops was created by John Langley and Malcolm Barbour , who tried unsuccessfully for several years to get a network to carry the program. When the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike forced them to find other kinds of programming,

2925-591: A while the idea of following officers home was deemed too artificial by Langley and was abandoned. Thereafter, the format of three self-contained unscripted segments without narration or music became the show's formula. Since the third episode of Season 2, every episode ends with a police radio excerpt referencing the intersection of SE 132nd Ave. and SE Bush St. in the Powellhurst-Gilbert, Portland, Oregon neighborhood of Portland, Oregon . A female officer says, "132 and Bush, I've got him at gunpoint", and

3042-496: Is an American television production company which is a division of Disney Television Studios , part of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company . Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment distributes the television series produced by 20th Television in home media formats through the 20th Century Home Entertainment banner. 20th Television was part of The Walt Disney Company's acquisition of

3159-573: Is an American reality legal television documentary programming series that is currently in its 36th season. It is produced by Langley Productions and premiered on the Fox network on March 11, 1989. The series, known for chronicling the lives of law enforcement officials, follows police officers and sheriff's deputies , sometimes backed up by state police or other state agencies, during patrol , calls for service , and other police activities including prostitution and narcotic stings, and occasionally

3276-486: Is based on the comic book series, and Blue Light . The 1966–67 season proved to be a difficult year for Fox's TV unit, which was producing the ABC sitcom The Tammy Grimes Show and the ABC dramas The Man Who Never Was , The Felony Squad , The Green Hornet and Irwin Allen 's science-fiction show The Time Tunnel . Although most of the new shows in the season did not last long, Felony Squad turned out to be

3393-816: The A&;E action series Breakout Kings , the Showtime series The Chi , the Hulu series Chance , the Comedy Central series Brickleberry , the WGN America series Salem and the Lifetime series Witches of East End . It was announced in December 2014 that Fox 21 and Fox Television Studios would merge into Fox 21 Television Studios. This situation came as a result of FTVS's president David Madden being promoted to Fox Broadcasting Company and

3510-514: The Fox Broadcasting Company and Fox Television Stations . Following a 1994 restructuring of Fox's divisions, 20th Television was refocused on syndication and "non-traditional programs"; its television production arm was moved back under 20th Century Fox and took the 20th Century Fox Television name. 20th Television distributed almost all programming and documentaries from the television production unit and its subsidiaries and

3627-573: The Hong Kong show. He also oversaw the development of the three programs for ABC, which were the comedy Margie and dramas Follow the Sun and Bus Stop . In 1961, William Self was appointed to replace Huggins. In 1962, the company decreased its output to one show, then produced no shows by 1963. Roy Huggins departed to join Revue Studios . During the short-lived dark period in 1963,

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3744-702: The Minneapolis Police Department , and announced its cancellation days later. The show remains in production for its international and overseas partners, and began to film anew in Spokane County, Washington , with its sheriff's department in October 2020. In September 2021, it was announced that Fox sibling Fox Nation picked up the show. The 34th season premiered in September 2022. Season 35 premiered on April 7, 2023. Following

3861-428: The acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney . On December 1, 2020, it was merged with 20th Television. MTM Enterprises (alternatively known as MTM Productions ) is an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS . The name for the production company was drawn from Moore's initials. MTM produced

3978-445: The 1970s, such as Cade's County , The New Perry Mason , Irwin Allen's The Swiss Family Robinson , Young Dan'l Boone , W.E.B. , The Paper Chase , Loves Me, Loves Me Not , and Billy all bombed, although The Paper Chase became a cult classic and gave Showtime additional seasons. Fox also distributed the game show Masquerade Party , produced by Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions , which aired during

4095-417: The 1974–75 season. From 1976 to 1978, Fox distributed Liar's Club , as well as Celebrity Sweepstakes , both of which were produced by Ralph Andrews Productions. In 1973, Fox distributed the syndicated Canadian videotape production The Starlost , produced by Glen-Warren Productions . In 1980, television producer Glen A. Larson quit Universal and joined 20th Century-Fox Television. The first show

4212-421: The 1990-91 television season, 20th Television sold Working It Out to NBC, and also sold the sitcoms Babes , Good Grief and True Colors to the Fox network. Twentieth Television also distributed the show Cop Rock , produced by Steven Bochco Productions for ABC via a development deal. Also during this season, Twentieth Television had purchased The Sunday Comics to the Fox television network. By

4329-559: The 1991–92 season, the Twentieth Television production company sold the comedy Drexell's Class to the Fox network, and distributed the Steven Bochco crime drama Civil Wars to the ABC. Twentieth Television also distributed the midseason cartoon Capitol Critters , a joint production between Hanna-Barbera and Steven Bochco, to ABC in the spring of 1992, along with the Fox comedy Stand By Your Man , which

4446-484: The 1992–93 season. In 1992, Peter Roth , who had left Stephen J. Cannell 's production company, joined 20th Television, and was instrumental in the development of the subsequent seasons. In the 1992–93 season, Twentieth Television sold the sitcom Rhythm & Blues to NBC, but it failed to catch on in the ratings. This was followed by a joint production between British-based WitzEnd Productions, Twentieth Television and CBS Entertainment Productions, Dudley , which

4563-423: The 2018–19 run of the defunct syndication version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on June 15 (of which an hour of episodes were distributed, as Cops was often paired with Live PD: Police Patrol , which was also pulled from syndication at the same time new episodes of that series were cancelled). Reelz began to carry Reloaded episodes again on September 3, 2021. Reelz also began to carry older episodes of

4680-451: The Act , and Cops: Too Hot for TV which included segments containing profanity and nudity that was edited out of the network version. Cops: Too Hot for TV also had a deluxe edition which had a segment containing especially graphic content, including police finding a man who had hanged himself in his garage and the aftermaths of two different shootings. Before the aforementioned segment, there

4797-652: The Bottom of the Sea , and 12 O'Clock High ; and the NBC drama Daniel Boone . Later that year, William Dozier and his Greenway Productions studio signed a deal with 20th Century-Fox to develop TV shows. By 1965, Fox was producing several new shows for primetime, such as The Legend of Jesse James , The Long, Hot Summer , The Loner and Irwin Allen's science-fiction drama Lost in Space , to be followed by Batman , which

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4914-573: The Fox network, which introduced The Simpsons , that the success in 1989 that saved Fox's struggling television unit. Fox also distributed the sitcom The New Adventures of Beans Baxter , produced internally by Fox Square Productions. For the 1987–88 season, Fox has sold the sitcom Second Chance to the then-new Fox television network, and sold the drama Leg Work to CBS, and the sitcom Pursuit of Happiness to ABC, in addition to Hooperman . In 1989, 20th Century Fox Television's functions were taken over by Twentieth Television Corporation,

5031-584: The Fox television network for the spring of 1994. Also, for the spring of 1994, Fox distributed the Steven Bochco-produced drama The Byrds of Paradise , which was aired on ABC. By the 1994–95 season, Chicago Hope , the second show from the Kelley–CBS–20th Television deal, went on to be a hit, lasting for six seasons. The Twentieth Television production company also sold The 5 Mrs. Buchanans to CBS, and Wild Oats , to

5148-418: The Fox television network. Following a 1994 restructuring of Fox's television production companies, 20th Television was refocused on syndication and "non-traditional programs", while network television programming once more came under the 20th Century Fox Television banner and returned to being a division of the movie studio. For the 1995–96 season, the new 20th Century Fox Television production company sold

5265-580: The Geek , the Showtime series Homeland , the Comedy Central series Brickleberry , the WGN America series Salem and the Lifetime series Witches of East End . On December 4, 2014, Fox Television Studios merged with Fox 21 to form Fox 21 Television Studios. Fox 21 was formed in 2004 by 20th Century Fox Television executives Dana Walden and Gary Newman to develop and back smaller-budgeted but unique and daring shows. Fox 21's first executive

5382-473: The Omaha incident. In Dion's honor, the show aired an hour-long "best of" episode featuring his work on its September 20, 2014 episode. The robbery's events took only seconds to happen. Detective Darren Cunningham responded to the call while the Cops crew accompanied Officer Brooks Riley and Officer Jason Wilhelm. Cunningham and Riley entered the front door and unholstered their firearms, while Wilhelm went to

5499-670: The United States, Hong Kong , London , and the Soviet Union . In the wake of the protests following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota under police custody, Paramount Network pulled the series from the air ahead of its season 33 premiere, which was scheduled for June 1, 2020. On June 9, 2020, a network spokesperson announced " Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don't have any current or future plans for it to return". The episode "Party in

5616-452: The Wendy's robbery, his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jeneva Arias, robbed a Little Caesars pizza restaurant, using the same airsoft pistol; Washington served as her getaway driver. Arias in turn was to be Washington's getaway driver in the Wendy's robbery, but fled. While in jail awaiting trial, she committed felony assault via throwing a soap mixture into a health care worker's face and fracturing

5733-461: The air by 2015, due to its syndicated contract expiring, the network decided not to renew the contract and by January, 2015, the network would stop airing the syndicated reruns. In the fall of 2013, it mainly began to air on Spike (now Paramount Network) on the cable side as part of that network's agreement to air new episodes, after several years on truTV . Older episodes were picked up by the now defunct Cloo in September 2014, after spending years on

5850-451: The air. By the 1993–94 season, Twentieth Television sold The X-Files to Fox, which became very profitable for the division, spawning 9 seasons, a revival series and a multimedia franchise. That same season, Twentieth Television distributed another high-profile project, NYPD Blue for ABC, produced by Steven Bochco Productions, which would go on to last for twelve seasons. Fox also sold South Central , originally proposed by CBS, to

5967-412: The air. By the early 90s, the company was producing a show, Not Just News , for first-run syndication. Also, in 1994, Fox Television Stations Productions produced an international version of America's Most Wanted , Manhunter , to be shown throughout international networks. It was later evolved into a US version for syndication, America's Most Wanted: Final Justice . In 2003, Fox Lab was producing

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6084-424: The air. Also introduced this season was Alien Nation to the Fox network, as well as Sister Kate for NBC, in addition to The Simpsons . In mid-1990, Twentieth Television had sold the sitcom Working Girl to NBC. Twentieth Television also offered the variety series In Living Color to the Fox television network, which introduced the talent of stars like Keenan Ivory Wayans and David Alan Grier . For

6201-468: The arm. Medics transported both to the hospital, and both died, with Dion being pronounced dead shortly after arrival. The 38-year-old Dion had worked on Cops for seven years. Langley Productions stated that, in 25 years of video recording, this was the first incident in which a crew member was seriously injured or killed. A Cops crew working in Springfield, Missouri , also wrapped following

6318-531: The arresting officers. The dog was biting the officer on the leg after being commanded to do so by the suspect. During the recording of episode 7 in Season 27, the camera crew assisted in detaining the passenger of a vehicle whose operator had fled on foot from officers in Lafayette, Louisiana . As police chased the driver, who successfully evaded arrest, the camera crew secured the vehicle by giving directions to

6435-514: The audience a fly on the wall point of view. Each episode typically consists of three self-contained segments which often end with one or more arrests . It is one of the longest-running television shows in the United States and, in May 2011, it became the longest-running show on Fox (since then, its duration has been surpassed by the duration of The Simpsons ). It also became the longest running live action series on Fox. When America's Most Wanted

6552-402: The authorities' decision to invite the Cops video crew to go with officers. On April 24, 2018, a Douglas County District Judge refused the City of Omaha's request to bar the release of the video of the robbery-shooting at Wendy's and ordered the City of Omaha to release all materials related to the death of Bryce Dion, of which only still frames had been previously released. On April 25, 2018,

6669-499: The car and attempted to flee from the responding officer, however the suspect was stopped by the production sound mixer that was standing in the path that the suspect intended on escaping with. In episode 17 of season 26 that aired on February 1, 2014, during the arrest of a man in Sacramento, California , for battery on his girlfriend, one of the camera crew pulled one of the suspect's American pit bull terrier away from one of

6786-459: The company developed Adventures in Paradise for ABC, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis for CBS and Five Fingers for NBC . In the following year, Fox also sold the drama Hong Kong to ABC. By 1960, Roy Huggins , who was lured from Warner Bros. Television , was tapped to join 20th Century-Fox Television as vice president in charge of production. During Huggins' watch, he refreshed

6903-415: The company had signed Hal Kanter and Paul Monash to production deals. Later that year, highly successful feature film producer Irwin Allen was moved from its feature film unit to its television unit to serve as producer for the studio. The company had returned to producing prime-time programs by 1964. The first shows were the ABC sitcom Valentine's Day , the ABC dramas Peyton Place , Voyage to

7020-406: The distribution subsidiary, Metromedia Producers Corporation, which was distributing the series Small Wonder . Fox also sold The Wizard to CBS, and Heart of the City to ABC for the 1986–1987 television season in addition to L.A. Law on NBC, which helped save the television industry of Fox. Fox also introduced the sketch comedy The Tracey Ullman Show , produced by Gracie Films for

7137-476: The fact that both units were focusing on the same market, cable television. The combined operation is headed by Fox 21 president Bert Salke. In January 2020, Fox 21 reached a first-look deal with Marta Kauffman 's studio Okay Goodnight, beginning with an adaptation of the 2019 novel The Dreamers . In early-February 2020, it reached a first-look deal with the Gotham Group . On August 10, 2020, as part of

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7254-418: The first 25 seasons, Cops was broadcast by Fox with reruns of earlier seasons syndicated by local television stations and cable networks, including truTV and G4 . After Fox canceled the show in May 2013, Spike picked it up for an additional five seasons, in addition to reruns of previous seasons. The 30th season premiered on June 17, 2017. On August 21, 2017, Cops celebrated its 1,000th episode with

7371-509: The first episode of season 22, which aired on September 12, 2009, an officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was tackled by a suspect. The camera operator and Las Vegas Fire Department personnel wrestled the suspect away from the officer. In episode 32 of season 22, an officer from Amarillo, Texas Police Department responded to a possible auto burglary. The suspect was found inside

7488-528: The first two episodes of the second season, a different police radio excerpt from the Portland Bureau of Police was used. Cops aired on Fox's traditional Saturday-night lineup since its debut in 1989. As of 2012, the program retained its traditional time slot, but aired more intermittently as Fox Sports scheduled more sports programming in Saturday-night primetime, with NASCAR on Fox in

7605-500: The following narration on the pilot episode: " Cops is about real people, and real crime. It was filmed entirely on location, with the men and women who work in law enforcement." During at least the first season, episodes featured original scoring in a vein similar to the instrumental backing of the opening song. Some cues were short, others longer, usually over montages. Among the composers who scored episodes were Michael Lewis and Nathan Wang. The Spike TV-Paramount Network version of

7722-491: The former G4-Cloo syndication agreement expired, giving that network the rights to the majority of the program. After Viacom's acquisition of Pluto TV in 2019, a 24/7 channel made up of episodes of the series directly programmed under license from Langley Productions was launched. Related to Paramount ending its carriage of Cops in June 2020, it has also relinquished its syndication rights; WGN America, which began to convert to

7839-409: The front exit. Dion was caught in the ensuing crossfire as the officer returned fire at Washington, who stumbled into the parking lot and fell from his injuries before his arrest. After the scene was secured, authorities learned that Washington's pistol was actually an airsoft handgun that strongly resembled a real Taurus firearm. Authorities placed the three police officers on paid leave pending

7956-489: The game show fray by signing a deal to distribute Beat the Clock , a revival of the popular 1950s game show. The decade closed out with the 1969-70 TV season and two new programs, Room 222 for ABC and Bracken's World for NBC. Also that year, Grant Tinker was hired to join the studio, but he would quit two years later due to conflicts with running MTM Enterprises . While the 1970s were difficult for Fox's TV unit,

8073-417: The late winter and spring, Major League Baseball on Fox throughout the spring and summer, Fox College Football in the fall, and various Fox UFC throughout the year. Cops was then scheduled on weeks without any sporting events, followed by an encore presentation of a Fox drama series. In 2013, it was announced that Fox had cancelled the program. However, it was later announced that Spike TV had picked up

8190-408: The majority of 21st Century Fox 's assets in 2019. The company's current name was adopted in 2020 when Disney dropped "Fox" from the names of acquired 21st Century Fox assets. With the closure of ABC Signature in 2024, 20th Television became the flagship production arm of both ABC and the rest of Disney. 20th Television has divisions from pre-Disney and post-Disney. 20th Century Fox Television

8307-491: The motion picture studio's output (and their own subdivisions). It owned programming from other production companies and studios they have acquired, including MTM Enterprises , most by Metromedia Producers Corporation , and most by New World Entertainment (including those by Four Star Television and Genesis Entertainment ). The company also syndicated and/or co-syndicates product from partners such as Regency Television and Debmar-Mercury (until April 2019). As part of

8424-565: The new contract was the science-fiction fantasy drama Millennium . In the summer of 1996, Fox and the production company bought out L.A. Firefighters for a summer run on the Fox television network. In 1996, New World Communications was bought out by Fox, which included its television stations, New World/Genesis Distribution and New World Entertainment. The deal was finalized in 1997. Shortly afterwards, Cannell bought back his library of rights from Fox in 1998. Also that same year, Steven Levitan , producers of Just Shoot Me! had signed

8541-508: The now defunct G4 , which was discontinued in December 2014. Local station syndication of the show was prevalent on most Fox stations and affiliates at the time, but as of 2015, older episodes were shifted into Cops Reloaded . WGN America also carried reruns of the regular version. At the start of 2016, the episodes in the now defunct Cloo/G4 package were moved into the Spike TV-Paramount Network syndicated package when

8658-405: The officers, who returned fire. Cunningham retreated into the hallway toward the restroom and kept firing at Washington, who had then turned the corner and stood where the officers had initiated contact. Riley moved around a column and into the waiting aisle at the counter. As Washington passed the uniformed police officer, he aimed his weapon toward the officer and continued firing as he moved toward

8775-434: The only division operating was the scripted unit. Next FTVS attempted international co-productions of direct-to-series broadcast series. The company had a hit with Burn Notice on USA Network. In August 2010, Dave Madden was appointed to head the unit, where he evenly increased its production slates until he was appointed as president of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting in August 2014. Fox Television Studios International

8892-597: The opening theme song, and older segments are modified and framed to a sharpened widescreen image for the high-definition format if they were originated in standard-definition television . From 2016-2018, Cops Reloaded aired on the CW network . On January 29, 2024, season 1 of Cops Reloaded was added to Tubi . In February, 2024, Season 1 of Cops Reloaded was also added to Peacock TV . The program has had several "best-of" home videos, including Cops: In Hot Pursuit , Cops: Shots Fired , Cops: Bad Girls , Cops: Caught in

9009-472: The original and Reloaded versions of the program aired on Action (now Adult Swim ). BiteTV began airing the program in December 2014 (until its relaunch as Makeful in August 2015), while sibling channel RadX (which re-branded to BBC Earth in January 2017) began airing it on Monday, August 3, 2015. Since 2022, Cops now airs on 24/7 channels by LG Channels and Samsung TV Plus . An enhanced version of

9126-417: The other responding officers had a two-person Cops crew (a cameraman and audio technician Bryce Dion) present in his or her cruiser. The crew began recording the robbery inside Wendy's. Authorities later identified the robber as 32-year-old Cortez Washington, whom police shot several times during the shootout. A police officer fired through a window, hitting Dion (wearing a bullet-resistant vest) once under

9243-558: The passenger; at one point, the camera operator can be seen gesturing to the passenger to place the latter's hands on the dashboard. On August 26, 2014, at roughly 9:20 p.m., a Cops crew was recording with the Omaha Police Department in Omaha, Nebraska , during their final week working with them since arriving in June. A police officer drove to a Wendy's restaurant during a robbery and called for backup. One of

9360-458: The program branded as Cops 2.0 with live web chats and program facts aired on G4 from May 2007 to 2009. In January 2013, 20th Television announced that a new syndicated version titled Cops Reloaded would begin airing on CMT as well as local stations. The new format features slightly edited segments of classic Cops episodes, allowing for four segments per each half-hour episode. This version contains all new graphics and soundbites during

9477-574: The program for another season. In August 2017, Spike moved the show's time slot to Monday. Davidson County Sheriff’s Office Greenville County Sheriff's Office Richland County Sheriff's Department In one episode, the production sound mixer for the camera crew, a former emergency medical technician , assisted a police officer in performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (season 2, episode 7). In an episode in season 11 that took place in 1998 in Atlanta , Georgia, camera operator Si Davis, who

9594-1255: The regular version from seasons 8-17. Since May, 2023, Fox Business has also began carrying syndicated reruns of seasons 32, 33. Law & Crime network carries syndicated broadcasts of Reloaded as of 2023. Cops is broadcast in the UK on CBS Drama , CBS Reality and Fox . In Portugal the show is aired on Fox Crime , in Brazil on truTV , in Colombia on truTV, in Australia on Network Ten , 10 Bold (a sub-channel of Network Ten) and Crime + Investigation , in Japan on Fox Crime, in Philippines on C/S 9 , in India on Star World and FOX Crime, in Norway on V4 , in Sweden Reloaded airs on TV12 while original runs on TV6 and TV10 , and in Denmark on Canal 9 . In Canada, both

9711-409: The restaurant's back part to cover an emergency exit door that opens only from indoors. Cunningham and Riley approached Washington, who was at the restaurant's back part and did not see the officers arrive. For unknown reasons, Washington walked to the front counter, where the officers identified him and told him to lie on the floor—but Washington immediately pointed and fired a pistol while moving toward

9828-477: The restructuring that stemmed from News Corporation spinning off its entertainment assets into 21st Century Fox , it was announced on July 8, 2013, that 20th Television will operate under the management of 20th Century Fox Television (it was previously moved under Fox Television Stations). As a result, the former company's president reported to the latter's chairmen. On August 10, 2020, Disney announced 20th Century Fox Television would be renamed 20th Television, and

9945-690: The result of an investigation into the shooting. A grand jury acquitted all three of misconduct. Washington had a lengthy criminal record in Wyandotte County, Kansas . At the time of the Wendy's robbery, he was on parole in Missouri, having been released in September 2013 after serving two years of a seven-year sentence as an accessory to second-degree robbery of a jewelry store, to which he pleaded guilty. In determining sentences and eligibility for parole, Missouri law does not consider criminal records in other states. Approximately 20 minutes before

10062-409: The serving of search and arrest warrants at criminal residences. Some episodes have also featured federal agencies. The show's formula follows the cinéma vérité convention, which does not consist of any narration, scripted dialogue, incidental music or added sound effects, depending entirely on the commentary of the officers and on the actions of the people with whom they come into contact, giving

10179-496: The show added the Twitter handle and Facebook URL as its social media pages to the intro in 2013 until it was removed in 2020. In September 1992, reruns of Cops went into broadcast syndication, and like Fox's fellow series The Simpsons , it became a mainstay of the format, with its carriage being led by Fox Television Stations itself, be it Fox stations or those stations which belong to its sister network MyNetworkTV ; it

10296-400: The show's 34th season on September 30, 2022. Cops was created by John Langley and his producing partner Malcolm Barbour . In 1983 they were working on Cocaine Blues , a television series about drugs. As part of his research Langley went on a drug raid with drug enforcement officers and was inspired to create a show focusing on real-life law enforcement. Before that, there had been only

10413-458: The sitcom Mr. Belvedere , which was an instantly popular hit. Also that same year, Fox sold its sitcom Charlie & Co. to CBS, which flopped after only one season. The second new sitcom under the Murdoch regime was Fathers and Sons , which was sold to NBC, which also flopped after one season. In 1986, Fox had purchased the assets of Metromedia , including its television stations and

10530-401: The sitcoms The Crew and The Preston Episodes to the Fox television network, Cleghorne! to The WB television network, and the adventure series Space: Above and Beyond , to the Fox television network. It distributed the crime drama Murder One , produced by Steven Bochco Productions, which was sold to the ABC television network during the season. In 1995, David E. Kelley signed

10647-466: The studio initially started off the decade with the shows Nanny and the Professor on ABC and Arnie for CBS, which proved to be modest successes. The studio would then produce M*A*S*H in 1972 for CBS, which would go on to be incredibly successful, lasting eleven seasons. Later on, in 1979, the studio produced Trapper John, M.D. , which was popular throughout the 1980s. Other Fox shows for

10764-422: The studio. In 2003 Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox Television produced the first three series that aired on Cartoon Network : Star Wars: Clone Wars In 2006, TCFTV produced the first two series that aired on Fox's sister network, MyNetworkTV : the telenovelas Desire and Fashion House . In 2012, 20th Century Fox Television was reorganized as a separate unit of News Corporation. In July 2014, it

10881-542: The success of ABC 's hit show Disneyland . In 1956, Fox sold its second show to CBS, My Friend Flicka , which is based on the Flicka film series. Later that year, Irving Asher , who was a very successful film producer, was made general manager of TCF Television Productions. In 1956, Fox sold the Broken Arrow TV project, which is based on the 1950 film of the same name, to ABC . In 1957, Fox cemented

10998-447: The syndicated show Classmates , that lasted only two seasons. Fox Lab's library is currently co-owned by The Walt Disney Company and Fox Corporation . Foxstar Productions was a division of Fox Television Studios. The original iteration of Touchstone Television was a television production company founded in 1985 as a division of Disney's subsidiary Touchstone Pictures . It is nowadays known as ABC Signature (since 2020), and

11115-484: The syndication arm would be absorbed into Disney Media Distribution . The second incarnation of Touchstone Television (formerly known as Fox 21 Television Studios ) was an American television production company that was a subsidiary of Disney Television Studios , a division of Walt Disney Television , which was owned by The Walt Disney Company . It was founded in 2014 from the merger of Fox Television Studios and Fox 21, and given its second name in mid-2020 following

11232-500: The unit in 2010 and led an increase in show productions starting with the Showtime series Homeland . In early 2015, Mythology Entertainment signed a first look deal with the company and its sister studio 20th Century Fox Television while announcing the head of its TV division. The company produces or had produced the FX series Terriers , Tyrant , Sons of Anarchy , Mayans MC , The Americans and The Bastard Executioner ,

11349-525: The video recorded by the Cops camera crew was released. The video was shown in open court and the Omaha World-Herald requested a copy, which it later released. Trevor Dion's lawsuit against the city was dismissed by a judge in July 2019. The show's theme song is " Bad Boys ", performed by reggae group Inner Circle , which was played over a montage of clips. All episodes of Cops began with

11466-545: The young Fox Television network picked up the low-cost Cops , which had no union writers. The program premiered on Fox on March 11, 1989. When the show went primetime in 1991, and consisted of two episodes in the 8 p.m. hour, it was called Primetime Cops in promos for several years. The program was one of only two remaining first-run prime-time programs airing on Saturday nights on the four major U.S. broadcast television networks (along with CBS's 48 Hours Mystery ). Malcolm Barbour left from producing Cops in 1994. For

11583-507: Was The Fall Guy , which was successful, though it would end up being the only Fox/Larson show to become so. The other collaborations, Trauma Center , Manimal , Automan , Masquerade , Cover Up and Half Nelson did not fare well due to poor ratings. By August 1980, other producers and agencies, like Clyde Phillips (Blue Hill Avenue Productions), former employee of Bob Banner Associates and Marc Merson (Brownstone Productions), former employee of Lorimar Productions had struck

11700-511: Was Jane Leisner. The unit's early hits were the FX series Sons of Anarchy and The CW reality series Beauty and the Geek . After originally being passed over for programming the new network, MyNetworkTV , Fox 21 was in consideration along with Twentieth Television and independent producers as of December 2006 in a potential reprogramming from telenovela to low-cost reality and game shows. Bert Salke, who moved from his Brancato/Salke production company based at ABC Studios , took charge of

11817-464: Was a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reserve police officer, dropped the camera and assisted an Atlanta police officer in wrestling a suspect into custody. It turned out that the APD officer had been injured during a foot pursuit; meanwhile, mixing console Steve Kiger picked up the camera and continued recording the action, which eventually made the air (season 11, episode 5). In another episode,

11934-441: Was a vehicle for Dudley Moore , which aired in the spring of 1993, but it also failed to catch on in the ratings. The company had also distributed the half-hour crime drama Likely Suspects for the Fox network, which was produced by Four Point Entertainment. In mid-1992, actor Chevy Chase received a deal with 20th Television to star in a late night comedy show, titled The Chevy Chase Show but it tanked after only one season on

12051-406: Was also consistently included on the schedule of The CW 's smaller-market chain of local cable channels and broadcast subchannels, The CW Plus . Seasons 7-24 would air on Court TV which eventually rebranded to TruTV in 2008, over the course of its syndicated run from 1998-2014 on the network, seasons 7-24 would be broadcast on the network, in 2014, it was announced the program would be pulled off

12168-704: Was also difficult for 20th Century-Fox Television, which saw the British co-production Journey to the Unknown and Irwin Allen 's final science-fiction drama to be produced, Land of the Giants , for ABC; the CBS drama Lancer ; and the NBC sitcoms The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Julia . Although Julia was deemed a hit, most of the shows in the season crumbled. Fox did have one additional Saturday morning cartoon for Filmation, Fantastic Voyage . In 1969, Fox entered

12285-473: Was announced that the "Fox" name would be dropped from several of the Fox assets acquired by Disney. On August 10, 2020, 20th Century Fox Television and 20th Television were merged into one unit as part of a restructuring plan by Disney regarding their television production units. In 2020, Disney announced that the Touchstone Television label was folded into 20th Television. ABC Signature

12402-475: Was announced that the operations of the Fox Broadcasting Company and 20th Century Fox Television would merge into a new unit, the Fox Television Group. In March 2019, 20th Century Fox Television, 20th Television and Fox Television Animation were acquired by The Walt Disney Company and integrated into Walt Disney Television as part of Disney Television Studios . On January 17, 2020, it

12519-465: Was canceled after 23 years, the show's host John Walsh , made numerous appearances on Cops . In 2013, the program moved to Spike TV, now known as Paramount Network . In late 2007, during the premiere of its 20th season, episodes of Cops began broadcasting in widescreen , though not in high definition . In June 2020, Paramount Network pulled the show from its schedule in response to George Floyd protests following his death while under arrest by

12636-473: Was dissolved in October 2024 and folded into 20th Television. The original incarnation of 20th Television was the television syndication and distribution arm of 20th Century Fox Television and the 20th Century Fox movie studio. It was formed in 1989 in order to separate television production from the 20th Century Fox division which oversaw film production. During this time, 20th Television and 20th Century Fox served as two of Fox's four main units, along with

12753-666: Was formed on August 1, 1997 alongside 20th Century Fox Television and 20th Television under executive David Grant. The studio was created to house smaller production units, starting with the Greenblatt-Janollari Studio (G-JS). Greenblatt-Janollari started producing shows in the 1998–1999 season with 3 comedy series for ABC and CBS . While funded by Fox, G-JS was presented as an "independent mini-studio". The studio also partnered with David Gerber and his Gerber Company venture to produce various telemovies and television series. With Fox Entertainment Group holding

12870-546: Was ideal for Fox. The first season aired in 1989 and consisted of 15 episodes featuring the Broward County Sheriff's Office . Since then, it has often been one of the highest-rated reality-TV programs, in part due to its low production cost (estimated at US$ 200,000 per episode in the early 1990s) and thus its capacity to show new material each week. The original concept of the show was to follow officers home and tape their home lives along with their work. After

12987-513: Was inspired by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz founding Desilu Productions a year earlier. Four Star produced several popular programs in the early days of television, including Four Star Playhouse (its first series), Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre , Stagecoach West , The June Allyson Show (also known as The DuPont Show Starring June Allyson ), The Dick Powell Show , Burke's Law , The Rogues and The Big Valley . Cops (TV program) Cops (stylized as COPS )

13104-508: Was known as ABC Studios since 2007. Fox 21 (styled fox21. ) was a low-cost scripted and reality cable television production arm of 20th Century Fox , which was a division of the Fox Entertainment Group , part of Rupert Murdoch 's 21st Century Fox . The company produces, the FX series Sons of Anarchy , Terriers and Tyrant , the A&E action series Breakout Kings , The CW reality series Beauty and

13221-522: Was moved to 20th Century-Fox for a film and TV partnership, creating a long relationship that lasted until the early 1990s when he moved to Sony. In 1985, after Steven Bochco left MTM and the Hill Street Blues program, he moved to 20th Century Fox Television to start the NBC crime drama L.A. Law and the ABC dramedy Hooperman , and marked the return of success for its television studio. During that same year, Fox returned to success with

13338-660: Was originally formed in 1949 by 20th Century-Fox as other studios were branching out into television production. The company was known as TCF Television Productions, Inc. from its inception until 1958. Its first TV series was Crusade in Europe , which was produced for ABC. In 1955, Fox intended to set up a TV film subsidiary on the company's Western Avenue lot in Hollywood, but it never materialized. Fox did not produce another TV show until 1955, when it launched its very first series, The 20th Century-Fox Hour on CBS , after

13455-411: Was part of a contract between Twentieth Television and British producer WitzEnd Productions . Also in 1991, David E. Kelley , who had produced two shows for Steven Bochco, L.A. Law and Doogie Howser, M.D. , announced that he was quitting to sign a joint agreement with CBS and Twentieth Television. The first program to come out of the deal was the family dramedy Picket Fences , which premiered in

13572-465: Was responsible for the development of A Current Affair , Cops and America's Most Wanted . It was rebranded to the current moniker in 1995, although the FTSP label was continued to be used on several older shows until Fox's cancellation of Cops in 2013. In 1990, Fox Television Stations debuted a soap opera, Tribes , only shown on Fox owned-and-operated stations . It only lasted one season on

13689-464: Was the international division of Fox Television Studios operated in 2000–2001. Daniella Welteke was tapped up to head the division, which was eventually folded into Fox World. The pod model evolved into five divisions: alternative, scripted, international, Fox World and Regency Television : Eventually the only division operating was the scripted unit. Next FTVS attempted international co-productions of direct-to-series broadcast series. The company had

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