John Langley was a TV producer best known for creating the hit reality show “Cops.”When Langley came up with his idea for “Cops” in the mid-1980s, reality TV was not yet the phenomenon it would become.
In fact, he had trouble finding a network that was interested in his concept. No other show was doing anything like what Langley envisioned for “Cops,” filming police in action and presenting the results without a narrator – and without reenactments, relying instead on the actual footage.
But Fox finally took a chance on “Cops” in 1989, and the show went on to run for 32 seasons, moving to the Spike network in 2013 before being cancelled in 2020.
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