New Crime Drama: Mental Ex-Cop And Empathic Paramedic?
The success of CBS and CTV’s Flashpoint, the cop drama that depicts the lives of a highly-skilled police team, is leading to more possible cop dramas from Canada. From big-city police to an empathic paramedic, there’s new crime drama blood in the air!
John Morayniss, the president of Canadian producer E1 Television has three new cop dramas that could very well make the grade with American viewers:
The Bridge – a project ordered by CTV, and follows the stories of a big-city police force and street cops who must catch criminals, yet struggle with their own bosses to protect the innocent and themselves.
What I really like about this premise is that it seems to throw the theory of the The Shield on its head. In that show, the cops themselves seemed to be corrupt, and the bosses had to be the good guys (…to an extent).
Copper – A 13 episode series from Global Television. It’s been described as a homegrown cop drama, and has been ordered straight to series, which means it shows some great promise.
Shattered – Another Global Television project and it’s directed by Bobby Roth (Prison Break). Shattered features an ex-cop with multiple personality disorder. It stars Kallum Keith Rennie (Battlestar Galactica, Californication) and as the ex-cop. He uses his disorder as a forensic tool!
The Listener - An NBC crime drama inked co-venture with CTV sporting another Toronto setting. This one is balanced with humor, emotional adventure and drama as it follows a tormented 24 year-old paramedic who has a secret – he can read minds. Each week, he uses his gift to solve crimes.
With the number of crime dramas we already have, it will be interesting to see if these new shows will be fresh and compelling. For those who say there’s no new crime stories out there, I say let’s wait and see what these gems have to offer.
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