Sentences with phrase «show on cops»

Why watch a show on cops, if it is yet another clown act?

Not exact matches

On television, where networks constantly battle for ratings, murder becomes the basis of cop shows, and insults the basis of comedy; both offer instant conflict.

Filmed last year on location in Eastern Europe, the show is purportedly «a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show» popular in Romania in the 1980s — a conceit the producers maintain by dubbing English dialogue over lines delivered by Romanian actors.

Cop shows on TV offer a clue.

Hey why do nt they show a priest on TV and you all come come to the idiot box and confess... the problem is no one makes the money except they can show adds for buying books on how to confess to cops..

Having watched the TV cop / crime procedural shows jurors want to see scientific evidence — there will be at least one on every jury who will be thinking to him / herself «Ted Danson and Elisabeth Shue would have done a much better job with this case.»

The NCOs have also been attending events in their individual sectors to get the word out and show their faces, and cops who showed up unexpectedly at a meeting of the Battery Part City School PTA on April 13 earned accolades from parents enthused by the idea of the old - fashioned beat cops, according to one member.

Taking calls on his weekly «Ask the Mayor» segment on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, the liberal de Blasio spoke with a black cop who gave his name as «Troy.»

Cuomo is putting on a show, as usual, since a cop was involved.

«I get to play a retired cop on a TV show now, but that's only because all the firefighters and police officers who are on the front lines every day who keep this city safe,» James said.

He even pushed County Executive Ed Mangano on the issue while they were at the funeral of slain NYPD cop Wenjian Liu, a wiretapped phone call showed.

On last night's BronxTalk featuring Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito, show host Gary Axelbank asked her about the decriminalization of low - level crimes, the need for 1,000 new cops, the Jerome Avenue Study, Harlem River development, FreshDirect, a variety of housing issues, and more.

Rudy Giuliani appeared on a radio show Thursday morning and blamed President Obama for a series of recent events, including a fight in a Brooklyn McDonald's and two cops being shot in Ferguson, Mo. (Rob Kim / Getty Images)

Bratton, once LA's top cop, told «The Cats Roundtable» radio show on AM 970 that while the NYPD can't solve homelessness on its own, the department had «a very ambitious initiative under way,» including training cops on how to deal with mental illness.

It's a staple of cop shows, but the jury's still out on claims that criminals» identities can be deduced from their modus operandi

Shown earlier this week, Burberry's take on the athleisure trend is an outfit you can cop right now.

The sole exception was the TV show Columbo, in which the audience KNEW the first and last, and had to figure out how the cop was going to weave a trap that would catch the murderer, based on finding the one clue that may have been missed.

So instead, Foley runs around manufacturing car chases and fluffing up a lame kidnapping plot that could barely fill a network cop show on an off night while Dakota Johnson's increasingly plastic Ana is forced to play Bond girl.

On the set of «Santa Monica Cop,» Sam's jealousy and fondness for firearms give Charlie an opportunity to show how much he loves his best friend and number - one client; Hank's arsonist ex-girlfriend surprises him with a way for them to be together forever.

Hank delivers a completed draft of «Santa Monica Cop» to Samurai Apocalypse but his attempts to leave town are once again thwarted when he's asked to show a night on the town to Kali, his «acquaintance» from the flight to Los Angles; Tyler crashes with Karen and Becca while he recovers from his injuries; things get unprofessional fast when Charlie is saved from a serious parental crisis by his son's nanny, Lizzie.

When the cops don't show enough interest in a drive - by shooting, a pair of grieving mothers take matters into their own hands in «Lila and Eve,» a vigilante thriller with a twist: Featuring an awards - caliber performance from Viola Davis and flavorful support from Jennifer Lopez («Guess I'll get my Tina on!»

There is a recurring gag that has Paul Rudd doing his finest Tony Montana impression (it gets old quick), a scene where the cops try to remove a beached whale from the shoreline, and a couple of run - ins with oft - appearing supporting performer on the TV show, Nick Swardson (The Benchwarmers), as the flamboyantly gay Terry.

The show, created by David Simon, was set in Baltimore and examined every facet of the city's war on drugs, from inner city dealers and the cops on their tail to politicians and members of the press.

When a couple called the Triplehorns don't show up, Phil and Claire take their table and, before you know it, this sweet couple find themselves mixed up with crooked cops, a sleazy DA, the real Triplehorns [who really aren't Triplehorns], honest cops and a security expert who has an aversion to shirts [as Phil complains, who needs muscles on top of their shoulders?].

How this all happens is absolutely fascinating, beginning with the arrival of the FBI and Special Agent Richard DesLauriers (Kevin Bacon), who uses a warehouse to re-create entire city streets and the crime scene; Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis (John Goodman), who runs the show with nerves of steel; Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese (JK Simmons), the Watertown cop who finds himself in the middle of a shootout with the culprits; Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (Michael Beach); Dun Meng (an excellent and scene - stealing Jimmy O. Yang), the young Chinese man who was carjacked and kidnapped by the pair, only to turn the tables on them; and of course the Tsarnaev brothers, Tamerlan (Themo Meilikidze) and the younger Dzhokhar (Alex Wolff), who both look and act so eerily like the real thing it is positively chilling to watch them.

Based on the book by John Buntin, and featuring ex - «Dead» Jon Bernthal alongside Neal McDonough, Milo Ventimiglia and Thomas Jane, a guest appearance by Simon Pegg and more, the show will center on an ex-Marine turned L.A.P.D. cop (Bernthal) who finds himself in the middle of the war between Captain William Parker (McDonough) and infamous gangster Mickey Cohen.

The Sweeney: The Complete Season One / The Complete Season Two (BFS)-- Britain's bare - knuckle cop show of the seventies stars John Thaw in his pre-Inspector Morse incarnation as the «gruff copper» DI Jack Regan, the take - no - prisoners leader of the rough and tumble Flying Squad, a unit tasked with talking on the organized crime underworld of London.

In turn, The French Connection «s influence has been multifarious, putting its stamp on everything from John Frankenheimer's underrated 1975 sequel and producer - turned - director Philip D'Antoni's unofficial follow - up, The Seven - Ups (also starring Roy Scheider and Tony Lo Bianco), to the Spike Jonze - directed Beastie Boys video «Sabotage,» an affectionate homage - spoof of the barrage of gritty «70s cop shows that followed in Friedkin's wake.

Based on a cult novel by Jean - Patrick Manchette and Jean - Pierre Bastid, «Let the Corpses Tan» tells the story of a woman and her two lovers who see their idyllic Mediterranean home invaded by a carload of robbers with a trunk of gold, and then the cops show up.

The incompetent Reno police department made for one of the most entertaining cop shows on TV, and the inherent humor of police - issue short - shorts deserves applause all on its own.

Well, the pilot suggests possibilities — mostly variations on buddy / cop shows where the partners start off not getting along but having chemistry — but despite the potential for clichés, the chemistry (there's that word again) between Morris Chestnut (as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr.) and Jaina Lee Ortiz (as Detective Karissa Villa) may — I repeat, may — make up for its missteps while the show finds its rhythm.

The cops who eventually show up looking for Charlie are malignant anti-Semites... and on down the list.

He's graced the small screen on several occasions, popping up on everything from Frasier to SeaQuest 2032, including a gang of cop / crime - related shows and TV movies from the mid-80s and 90s (Miami Vice, Hunter, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Walker, Texas Ranger, NYPD Blue, New York Undercover, and Oz).

I suspect the tolerance for this kind of thing will meet better reviews for those seeing on the small screen, as it is little more than a big budget cop show.

The casting of Trudi Goodman as a coke - snorting pedophile felt particularly inhumane, though not as mind - boggling as the beeline Michelle Monaghan made for the exit at the end of the film (those who've read the book tell me her character has been considerably dumbed down), leaving Casey Affleck sitting on a couch wondering if kindergarten - cop duty is just punishment for the ethical exactitude he showed earlier.

With winning candor (of the no - nonsense Jewish variety), Gordon brushes off his best stories, like the one about putting a chicken onstage for glammy client Alice Cooper to abuse, then calling the cops on his own show, acting as an incensed parent for publicity's sake.

Nice show as usual, I hadn't planned on seeing Cop Out, thanks for taking that bullet.

It plays out like a standard cop show we might see on the BBC, but with big names attached to the title.

In the show's synopsis, City on a Hill will focus on the pre-miracle period, where violent criminals and bent cops ran the area.

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Dax Shepard writes, directs and stars in this buddy cop action comedy based on the»70s T.V. show, co-starring Michael Peña as Ponch.

21 Jump Street Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence Available on DVD and Blu - ray If you would have told me in January that one of the best films of the year come June would be a rehash of the old Johnny Depp TV show about cops who undercover in high school, I would have called you an idiot.

Created by Andy Kinnear and Cein McGillicuddy (also on directing duties), the show spoofs 1970s cop thrillers like it's going out of fashion.

Pacino does a slick turn on a dime from his junkie from «The Panic In Needle Park» while showing the depth commonality of corrupt cops.

Karl Urban is headed back to TV, with Deadline reporting that the Star Trek and Thor: Ragnarok star — who once graced Fox's short - lived sci - fi cop show Almost Human with his grumpy visage — has signed on as the lead in Amazon's The Boys.

The cop and the guy put on a sound show for the partygoers — to make it appear as if this is a cop who's willing to beat anyone who doesn't follow his orders.

Jimmy Fallon (left), Maya Rudolph and Martin Short star in «Windy City Blue,» a Chicago cop drama spoof on «The Tonight Show.»

Martin Short, Maya Rudolph and Jimmy Fallon took aim at two classic Chicago stereotypes — our wind and our accents — in a cop drama spoof that aired Friday on «The Tonight Show.»

That's because ten - year - old me was obsessed with a 1989 show on Fox called Alien Nation, which was based on the film of the same name starring James Caan as a racist cop and Mandy Patinkin as his alien partner.

«Angie Tribeca» (TBS): Executive producers Steve and Nancy Carrell's comedy take on the cop - show genre stars Rashida Jones.