The long-running tv present COPS is returning to tv, two years after it was canceled in the course of the Black Lives Matter riots over George Floyd.
The favored present debuted in March of 1989 and ran till June 9, 2020, when Paramount pulled it off the air in assist of Black Lives Matter.
Initially, the present was on Fox and can now be airing on the FOX Nation streaming platform. On the time that it was canceled, the present was airing on Spike TV, which turned Paramount Community in 2018, in response to a report from Mediaite.
“Cops is just not on the Paramount Community and we don’t have any present or future plans for it to return,” a Paramount Community spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to Deadline on the time.
On the identical time that COPS was yanked by Paramount, an identical present known as “Dwell PD” was pulled by A&E “out of respect for the households of George Floyd and others who’ve misplaced their lives.”
When Dwell PD was canceled it was the primary collection on cable on Friday and Saturday nights.
Social justice warriors had been railing towards the present because it started.
“The dominant picture is hammered residence repeatedly: the overwhelmingly white troops of police are the nice guys; the dangerous guys are overwhelmingly black,” the New York Instances wrote in 1989. “Little is claimed in regards to the final sources of the medicine, and nothing is talked about about Florida’s periodic scandals during which the police themselves are discovered to be trafficking in medicine.”
Jason Klarman, president of the streaming service, mentioned in a press launch that “FOX Nation is continuous to broaden its library of the enduring collection ‘COPS,’ with all new, unique episodes set to roll out starting Friday, September thirtieth, introduced Jason Klarman, president of the streaming service.”
“It has been practically one yr since we greenlit COPS and the response has been positively overwhelming,” Klarman mentioned. “Our subscribers proceed to flock to the collection and we’re excited to offer our engaged viewers with extra of the unique content material they’ve come to depend on from FOX Nation.”
