Axed: East New York, True Lies.
Another cop drama, and a spy adaptation, end after CBS backflips on SWAT axing.
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CBS has cancelled cop drama East New York and small screen adaptation, True Lies.
East New York, which screens in Australia through the Foxtel group, ends at one season after CBS today reversed its decision to cancel S.W.A.T.
The series followed Regina Haywood (Warren), the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, an impoverished, working-class neighborhood at the eastern edge of Brooklyn. She leads a diverse group of officers and detectives, some of whom are reluctant to deploy her creative methods of serving and protecting during the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.
The series also starred Jimmy Smits, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Richard Kind, Olivia Luccardi, and Lavel Schley.
Deadline reports East New York and S.W.A.T. were believed to be competing for the same slot.
Also canceled today was True Lies, starring Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga.
True Lies has been CBS’ lowest-rated scripted series of the season.
It screened in Australia on Disney+.
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East New York was like a second rate Blue Bloods, there weren’t any new ideas. SWAT I stopped watching during S4. I watched a bit of S5 but the replacement characters didn’t really change anything and the stories have all been fairly repetitive. In S6 they introduced a new rookie, and just recycled scripts from S1.
Sorry that East New York is axed. Especially since it finished in the middle of a story line.
Sad about True Lies. Was different than the movie, but I felt it worked for a TV concept. Even had an episode with Tom Arnold and they worked in his immortal line from the movie: “what kind of sick…”!