cop-show

•CSI (CBS, 9 ET/PT) initiates Langston and Riley into the cop-show fold with one of the genre's favorite sweeps tricks: They are taken hostage.

Critic's Corner Thursday 2009

Besides his work on Mad Men, Gladis also voices Chief on Adult Swim's cop-show parody Eagleheart.

Exclusive: The Leverage Team Goes After a Mad Man 2011

The twist here is that a department within the U.S. Marshals Service, led by Charlie DuChamp played by D.C. native and cop-show vet Laz Alonso, has decided to ask a few of the most flight-risky convicts to help them outwit and capture the escapees.

TV review: A&E's 'Breakout Kings,' where prisoners outsmart the escapees 2011

And so it is that the kids who grew up watching teen movies and trash TV are greenlighting films with both feet firmly in the 1980s: from idiotic cop-show parodies like MacGruber, to horror retoolings of Nightmare on Elm Street, to this, a, remake of one of the 80s 'least fashionable hits, The Karate Kid.

The Karate Kid 2010

(10: 30 ET/PT), as this clever cop-show spoof launches its fifth season.

Critic's Corner Wednesday 2008

Many of the transcriptions of their interrogations read similarly, beginning, “Yes … yes … sure …,” and then suddenly silence, a palpable bolt of fear, and the recognition that this was not one of the cop-show videos they watched on their VCRs.

Trouble in Paradise William Prochnau and Laura Parker 2008

On the second episode of "The Beat," Marinelli and Dorigan show up at a murder scene where they're greeted by a Detective Munch, better known to cop-show fans as Richard Belzer.

Cops And Docs Forever 2008

I guess what I'm saying is that there is more than one axis along which to measure content, and picking 'DIKU-style' or 'fantasy' or 'cop-show' or whatever is just way too broad.

Who plays, how much, and why? Answers. 2008

Denis Leary's dark comedy breaks every sitcom and cop-show rule -- it's wonderful.

Critical Moment 2007

Thankfully, most of those silly cop-show cliches slowly dissolved away.

High 'Wire' Act 2007