They didn't want to do another "cop show" and agreed on one with journalism as its focus.
Anyone who had ever seen a cop show on television, good or bad, knew the routine.
The real reason to do another cop show is music.
"Still trying to figure out how we pick up the pieces of the broken cop show?"
In the first place, American cop shows are ensemble pieces.
He let a little cop show through his polite smile.
Probably something they picked up from some cop show, he thought.
We had some really fun opportunities this season to pull from old '70s cop shows.
Don't you think it's about time someone put them together in their own cop show?
But as to whether this is no ordinary cop show, there's room for debate.