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New cop drama for Nine

Nine's next drama will see it return to a traditional local police station.

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policeTV Tonight hears Nine’s next drama in pre-production is a new police show.

Titled Cops. L.A.C. (Local Area Command) the Sydney based drama will return to a traditional local police station.

With 3 uniformed cops and 3 plain-clothed cops it will comprise part of Nine’s 2010 slate.

Nine Programmer Michael Healy recently told TV Tonight, “We’re working on another Australian drama which is in pre-production at the moment and shaping up really well.”

Nine will officially unveil its 2010 programming in early December.

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  1. I think if they make this Drama something like Blue Heelers It would be great we need a just a everyday cop drama not a over the top squad! Also with Kate Ritchie wanting a return to drama I wonder will we be seeing her on L.A.C next year?

  3. terrible. anything but a cop drama.
    even a medical drama? especially now that AS is gone, we don’t have any medicos.

    i will pass on a cop drama. they didn’t learn anything from R:SO even the name is similar.

    incase people didn’t know, 7 is also going to have a new drama in 2010, tim said so on a mediaweek podcast.

  4. Good one Russel. Nearly all the series toy named we should produce cost upwards of US1.5mil furthermore most are not netwrok series with even the US versions tanking on FTA. Hey Dexter is my fav show by a long way but thanks to the IQ of most aussies watching commerical TV, these types of dramas will never be a reality on anything other than Foxtel however they have around 650K AUS to spend.

  6. “Why do they need the L.A.C.?”

    Bad boys bad boys whatchya gonna do, whatchya gonna do when they come for you….Footage of shirtless man getting arrested.

    To be fair, it’s an improvement on their original title… The Bill: L.A.C

  8. why do we need a show that has abbreviations in its title. L.A.C … WTF more like. stupid.

    If it is well made and has original stories then all fine but seriously there have to be more ideas than just cops. If theyw anted to play it safe they should have gone medical now that there is no Aussie medical drama.

  12. A show about the Police! Of course, what a brilliant notion! There’s so much drama and action potential! Why hasn’t anyone thought of this before? Clever, Nine! You may have struck on an untouched goldmine, here.

    Maybe you should also think about one set in a Lawyer’s office, or in a Hospital. Oops, hope nobody steals my ideas.

  13. Their last cop drama worked so well didn’t it. The Strip anyone?? And what’s with another stupid name for a show. First Rescue: Crap Name, now Cops: Crap Name.

  14. Why do they need the L.A.C.? It’s like Rescue and then the Special Ops sub-title. I don’t really like the sound of that.
    I think this show will be kinda cool, a Sydney version of Blue Heelers. It will probably need some big stars in big roles, in order to get the show up and running.

  19. If its a real gritty cop drama like ‘Wildside’ I think it could do wonders for Nine, if it turns out to be mainstream rubbish, like the failed ‘Young Lions’ then it’ll sink pretty fast.

  20. So do we really need another Police Drama?

    I mean come on guys, surely there is some more creative people in this country with shows that don’t relate around Police/Rescue or Doctors/Hospitals… oh right they’re over on PayTV with the likes of Tangle and Satisfaction on Showcase.

  25. Oh god, can Australian networks and writers develop anything other than medical, cop/crime or soapy dramas.

    It’s ridiculous. Where are the big ideas?

    Dexter Nip/Tuck True Blood Big Love Entourage Fringe Ghost Whisperer Medium Numbers Psych Monk vampire Dairies Supernatural Gossip Girl

    C’mon Aussie TV!

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