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And here is your first glimpse of images from Cops LAC, Nine's newest drama series coming to screens sometime this year.

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And here is your first glimpse of images from Cops LAC, Nine’s newest drama series coming to screens sometime this year.

It stars Kate Ritchie, Martin Dingle-Wall, Gary Sweet, Roy Billing, Jacinta Stapleton, Damien de Montemas, Tom O’Sullivan, Ria Vandervis, Kelly Paterniti, Graeme Squires and Denise Roberts.

The “Local Area Command” series features “first day rookies to hardened veterans, walking the beat or deep under cover.”

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  4. There have been many allusions to similarities to Blue Heelers – perhaps this will be a character-based drama, just set in a police station, where the actual crimes take a backseat. The whole LAC thing says these guys won’t be involved in big crimes – if there is a murder they secure the scene and wait for Homicide. Back in Mt Thomas they could have their fun because PJ would solve the crime before the Ds arrived from Melbourne – but that won’t work here.

    Why not give it a chance – surely this is better than the situation a few years back where the only jobs for Aussie actors were on soap operas. With Tangle, Spirited and Offspring all joining Rafters, it’s looking like a great season.

  5. I have to agree with Craig and the others regarding the number of Cop/Lawyer and Medical drama’s on TV in general. David you make the relevant points as to why so many are made, but i’m well and truly over all of them. I haven’t watched one in years. I think creativity is badly lacking in the drama space and i’m sure i’m not the only viewer who is craving for something truly new and fresh.

  9. Good points David and yes I do watch most of those shows but in the main on the FTA commercial networks (not ABC/SBS) they tent to go for the legal/police/medical formats and yes Nine needs a Rafters. Maybe Offspring will be the next Secret Life for TEN?

    I agree the US pumps out a lot of them as well but they have a stronger cable TV production and more diverse programing to go with they network stations.

    My point is I get boarded when every a new police show comes out unless it can grab me like Rush has in recent years, but I have not got into ROS yet. I’m not saying they are bad, I just don’t watch them so can’t really comment either way most of the time.

    That said I hope Kate Ritchie does well in this project.

  12. Actually its the same as all these Foxtel series (which seem to have spurn out of The Secret Life of Us) – and they all star Claudia Karvan!!

  13. if audiences were showing some kind of thirst for Australian cop/procedural shows i could understand networks making large amounts of them. like factuals in the height of the factual craze. but shows like city homicide, rush, rescue, the strip they are all flopping, and have been since before production started on this. why do they persist. they could have atleast gone for medical or legal which commercial tv hasn’t had a lot of lately. i saw the promo that aired after sea patrol, it looks like garbage, done on the extreme cheap.

    i will give it a shot, because i want to give aussie drama a chance, but atm i am not excited about it.

  14. Argh! Another cop show! Ok, they’re not bad shows, but its just the recycling that happens on Aussie TV – this is just a reworked Blue Heelers / City Homicide / Water Rats / Stingers / Police Rescue etc etc etc

    They’re all different – but so so so similar!

  19. Can’t wait to see this new show start, it looks like it has heart, and I actually got a bit teary seeing Kate Ritchie in the promo’s on screen, so long since Sally,looks like alot tougher and grittier role for her. I was just wondering is that Sophie Katinis in one of the pics for COPS LAC, i havn’t heard her name mentioned with the show, she has just popped up in Home and Away aswell, she’s a great actress. I hope Nine have a hit with this but David is right, i think Nine would do great attempting a family comedy/drama maybe with a slight Outrageous Fortune twist and lots of bent aussie humour to appeal for oversea’s sales!! I’m happy for the moment with all the drama’s the networks are trying to attempt but bring back some aussie drama repeats on GO, maybe Pacific Drive and Chances!!

  20. @Timothy, don’t know about Home and Away as I’m proud to say I’ve never watched the show, but Martin Dingle-Wall played a firey in series one of Rescue Special Ops.

  22. Why is it we can only (for the most part) produce 2 types of non reality shows in the in this country, cops/lawyers or medical based? I mean yes some are good but it’s an endless parade of the same stuff. The only exception to this in recent times has been the Rafter.

    1. Craig, it’s not the only exception, but maybe the only one that springs to mind. What about Satisfaction, Dirt Game, Bed of Roses, Tangle, The Cut, etc? I’ve blogged on this topic before but here is the short version: adult drama is almost universally divided into either melodrama (Rafters) or issue-based. The latter in Australia and overseas is underscored by medical, police and legal because they bring the stories in the door every week, they put our central characters into heroic roles and their interior sets (medical ward / cop shop etc) makes them buget friendly to television. America makes way more cop shows than we do. That said, Nine needs to close the closet on uniforms and find its own Rafters.

  25. Although I’m glad that we have another local drama coming, I just can’t seem to get excited about Cops L.A.C. Maybe if it was a hospital show (because lets face it, it’d have to be procedural), or even set in a law firm maybe, but I’m all copped out at the moment.

    Though I am hoping Offspring becomes the beginning of new non-procedural drama offerings – whether they focus on families, or twentysomethings, or randoms…

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