Air Quote by Dan Rather

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at…

— Tom Shales

I think people make way too much of ratings.

— Walter Cronkite

Sometimes it's hard to know why networks will stick with something. Sometimes the ratings won't happen, but there's excitement at the network, so they'll…

— Beau Bridges

I was going to say it's pretty bad these days, but I actually think it's pretty much the same as it's always been: There…

— Paul F. Tompkins

Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with…

— Steven Bochco

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of…

— Mireille Enos

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

— Lawrence O'Donnell

Be it news channel or the shows, everyone is making a fool of audiences.

— Sanjay Mishra

When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this…

— Jeffrey Klarik

It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities.…

— Veena Sud

It's a whole new world as far as getting a show on the air. There's good things and bad things.

— Bill Burr

We're all used to seeing a lot of cop shows, some of them brilliant, some of them very generic.

— Nicola Walker