Recently I found out that several agencies in the Central Florida region will have film crews from "COPS" arriving for a six to eight week shooting schedule. I'm sorry, didn't I just get done talking about how addictive and exciting these shows can be. Not to mention how smart, intelligent officers transform into boneheads who fancy themselves the next TJ HOOKER or STARSKY & HUTCH. This has got to be a terrible, cruel joke!!
It's as if some tee shirt shirt and sport coat wearing, thirty-something FOX TV exec saw my post and said to himself, CENTRAL FLORIDA, I LIKE IT, LETS DO LUNCH AND MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
Is this is how my agency will die? A comical yet tragic slip and fall into the deepest, darkest depths of mediocrity!
MUST.....RESIST..............MUST............WARN............(gasp)....OTHERS!!!!!
Oh, the drama! So now what?
Will I be tempted and ensnared by the lights, camera, action?
Will I be picked (NOT LIKELY) to escort one of these camera toting invaders around while he/she encourages me to bare my soul to America??
Will the agency see a sudden upswing in questionable or borderline legal arrests when the crews are around???
Will the best our trailer parks have to offer be on display for the nation's consumption???? "Ma'am, please go back in the trailer and put on a shirt!!"
"He's lyin' thru his tooth, but ah luv heeeeem!"
Who will fall victim to the boss' misplaced desire to showcase his agency to the world?????
I guess in a few months, after all the "boring" stuff is edited out, eight weeks of filming will be churned and shredded until they crank out three or four, twenty-two minute episodes.
The boss will either beam with pride or (more likely) buy TUMS by the caseload.
I guess we will just have to wait and see..........
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