COPSTV

COPSTV is the official channel for the American reality legal television documentary programming series named COPS.
==History==
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, Fox Television network picked up the low-cost Cops, which had no union writers. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-after-25-years-at-fox-cops-moves-to-spike-20130506-story.html
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. Malcolm Barbour left producing Cops in 1994. http://www.cops.com/
For 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. https://www.deadline.com/2013/05/cops-cancelled-by-fox-picked-up-by-spike-tv/https://web.archive.org/web/20170729135904/http://www.cops.com/c3001p/
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". https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/cops-season-33-paramount-network-george-floyd-1234626422/ The episode "Party in a Box" 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. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3nw3kn 
==Channel==
The COPSTV channel was created on September 20, 2007. Their first video was uploaded on November 9, 2011, titled "Show 2407, COPS TV SHOW."
==References==
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