FBI Dramas

Fox has announced its 2009-2010 midseason line-up and, and it includes 2 new unique crime related action dramas.

One series stars Fringe’s Mark Valley as an unusual private contractor who works to keep his clients alive.
The other series (Past Life) pairs an NYPD detective and a gifted psychologist (Kelli Giddish, seen here) who work to solve crimes that must be solved in the present and past(?). Are we talking time travel here, or past lives?
Human Target
Courtesy of DC Comics, and executive producers McG and Simon West, Mark Valley will star as Christopher Chance, a very “different” sort of private contractor …read more

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Described as a gripping network crime series, NBC’s and ER creator John Well’s Southland has burst onto the scene, with a story of a tough and experienced Los Angeles cop assigned to train a young rookie. Check out the short trailer for the series below:

The story is set on the backdrop of Los Angeles, and takes a look at not just the cops, but the victims, their families, and the criminals. Southland airs on Thursdays at 10:00 PM ET on NBC.
Watching the series, I get the feel of something between The Shield and Third Watch.  I also get the …read more

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Just the idea of a halfway house for troubled cops sounds a little scary. It could also present a few hilarious scenarios. At least, this is what Fox’s Brett Ratner (Prison Break, Women’s Murder Club) is betting on, as he is directing a new Fox comedy pilot called Cop House.
Scott Caan (Oceans 11, 12, and 13, Gone In Sixty Seconds) is tapped to play the lead, a champion marksman who suffers a nervous breakdown after his wife leaves him for his sister.
You can see a very funny video clip which features Caan (and Casey Affleck) in his role …read more

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Without A Trace, Criminal Minds, and Numb3rs, move over! CBS has just made way for two new crime dramas. One is an FBI drama created by Criminal Minds’ creator Ed Bernero, and the other? It’s a spin-off of the crime procedural, NCIS. Read more about the CBS crime drama newbies.
Washington Field comes from Ed Bernero, producer and creator of Criminal Minds. The series, done with the FBI’s stamp of approval, is named after the FBI’s Washington field office.
It’s said the office contains the National Capitol Response Squad – a team of elite experts with different types of expertise, …read more

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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 …read more

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If you’re a Joss Whedon or Dollhouse fan, or love to solve crime mysteries, here’s a chance to solve the mystery of Dollplay, an interactive or “participation” drama from FOX’s Dollhouse.
Dollplay is an online crime mystery in which a woman named Hazel Rose is trapped inside a locked mobile laboratory. Her only link to the outside world is you, the online audience.
Through her blog of video captivity, fan clips, video responses and experiences, Hazel can only gain her freedom by clues and secrets discovered about the Dollhouse. Hazel will also use the dangerous imprint machine to “mind-wipe” and …read more

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So is ABC getting a taste of the Jerry Bruckheimer magic bullet success that CBS has enjoyed for so long? Sounds like it from the latest news (THR) of the network making deals for new pilots.
Of note, Bruckheimer is set to executive produce a yet unnamed series that follows a team of amateur detectives who work on cases of unidentified victims..for ABC!
Written by Mark Friedman, this will be Bruckheimer’s first scripted series on ABC.

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So if you’re tired of the pretty crime drama stories (ones that are resolved in an hour), and want to see some real crime solving procedure, get ready for CBS’s Missing You. Will it be as successful or more, than A&E TV’s Crime 360 shown in this video clip below? In the short clip, an investigator talks about the 3D camera they use to scan a crime scene.

 
Hollywood Reporter says that CBS is stepping into the crime reality show genre, by ordering this new series called Missing You. Shaun Cassidy is an executive producer for this project. It will …read more

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Jerry Bruckheimer, creator of crime dramas CSI and Without A Trace, has reportedly become a willing accomplice in Cocaine Cowboys, a new HBO drama about the Miami drug trade in the 1980s. Bruckheimer is teaming with director Michael Bay for this series, based on a documentary written by Billy Corben.
So hasn’t this already been done, you may ask, with the old TV series, Miami Vice? Well, maybe, but HBO is known for its original and gritty programming. This series may prove to be Miami Vice on speed.
Bruckheimer is also the executive producer for CBS crime series, Eleventh Hour, and …read more

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ITV has plans for a British version of the American TV crime drama, Law & Order. Will it be as wildly popular as our version, or the successful spin-off, Law & Order: SVU, which stars Mariska Hargitay?
The stars tapped for the series are Battlestar Galactica’s Jamie Barber and Coronation Street’s Bradley Walsh. I’m not sure that I’m too excited about another Law & Order, however, this 13 episode series with the promise of Dr. Who/Torchwood talent, Freema Agyeman, as prosecutor, lends some excitement to the premise.
Similar to Law & Order’s 2 part format of showing the criminal investigation first, …read more

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