Flashpoint (TV series)
Flashpoint is a Canadian police procedural crime drama television series created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern. The series debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and on CBS and Ion Television in the United States. The series starred Hugh Dillon, Amy Jo Johnson, David Paetkau, Sergio Di Zio, and Enrico Colantoni.
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| Genre | Police procedural |
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| Opening theme | Theme from Flashpoint |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 75 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer | Tracey Boulton |
| Production locations | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Running time | 44 minutes |
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| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Original release | July 11, 2008 – December 13, 2012 |
Flashpoint follows the Strategic Response Unit, a fictional police tactical unit within a Canadian metropolitan police force (based on the Toronto Police Service's Emergency Task Force;[1] the city itself is strongly implied to be Toronto, Ontario). The SRU is tasked with resolving situations that regular officers are not capable of effectively handling, including hostage-takings, bomb threats, and manhunts for dangerous criminals, among other high-risk situations. Though heavily-armed and trained for combat, SRU members use crisis negotiation and intuition to try to avoid the use of deadly force, which is only to be used as a last resort. The initiation of a given situation is often determined by a split-second decision, hence the show's title.
On January 25, 2011, it was announced that Ion Television had acquired all rights to the show held by CBS, including the option to continue production. On May 1, 2012, the producers announced that the fifth season would be the last of the series.[2] The series finale aired on December 13, 2012.
Cast
The majority of the cast of Flashpoint are Canadians, including Enrico Colantoni, David Paetkau, Hugh Dillon, Sergio Di Zio, Michael Cram, Mark Taylor, and Ruth Marshall. Amy Jo Johnson is the only American.[3] Johnson said she had no problems with the physical demands of the show despite being pregnant[4] with her first child with her fiancé Oliver Giner[5] during initial production of Flashpoint.[4] Ruth Marshall left the series after Season 1 and Mark Taylor left after the tenth episode of the second season after his character, Lou, died. During Amy Jo Johnson's maternity leave (during which her character was hospitalized with a gunshot wound), she was temporarily replaced by Jessica Steen, who played Donna Sabine. Steen left the main cast in the sixth episode of the second season, when Johnson's character returned full-time, although she has appeared in some later episodes. Taylor was replaced by Oluniké Adeliyi, who portrays Leah Kerns as of the second episode of the second season. In the fifth episode of the fourth season, Michael Cram, known as "Wordy", left the show when his character was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. Cram was replaced by Clé Bennett, portraying Rafik Rousseau. This character left by the first episode of the fifth season. Two episodes later, Adeliyi's character returned to Team One. In an interview, the show's creators stated that they liked to cast only Canadians in Flashpoint; the only non-Canadians who have been on the show are Amy Jo Johnson, Colin Cunningham, and Ben Bass.[6]
Episodes
Production
Flashpoint was conceived in 2005 as part of a CTV project that encouraged actors to submit scripts to the network.[7] The original Flashpoint script (known earlier as Sniper and Critical Incident)[8][9] was for a two-hour television film. A pilot episode was produced for CTV in July 2007 under the Critical Incident title featuring most of the cast of what would become the series, but without the characters Jules Callaghan and Lewis Young; the characters in the pilot were Kate Travers and Robert "Shakes" Boneyman.[10] CTV's interest in the project led to Flashpoint's being reworked as a regular CTV series, which was approved in mid-December 2007. The show was unaffected by the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike because Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) rules allow any members of the WGC living in Canada, including writers with dual WGA/WGC membership, to write for Canadian productions.[11] Writers living in the United States with dual WGA/WGC membership were required to get a waiver from the WGA to work on Canadian productions during the strike.[11][dead link]
Although originally developed for a Canadian audience, it was announced on January 29, 2008, that American network CBS had purchased the rights to air the series in the United States,[12] making it the second Canadian TV series aired in primetime on a U.S. broadcast network after Due South, also a CTV show aired by CBS.[13] In addition, Flashpoint is the first Canadian series aired by a major U.S. broadcast network set entirely in Canada (as Due South was primarily set in Chicago but filmed in Toronto). On March 5, 2008, CBS announced that Flashpoint would premiere in July.[14] CTV announced on May 8, 2008, that it would simulcast the show in Canada beginning on July 11.
Flashpoint began filming 13 episodes on April 17, 2008. It was written and created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern and executive produced by multiple Gemini Award-winner Anne Marie La Traverse for Pink Sky Entertainment and Bill Mustos for Avamar Entertainment, in association with the CTV Television Network and CBS Television Studios (formerly CBS Paramount Network Television). The pilot episode, titled "Scorpio" was based on an actual event that occurred in Toronto in 2004, in which a gun-wielding hostage-taker was shot and killed by an Emergency Task Force sniper.[15] Ellis and Morgenstern wrote their teleplay for the episode after interviewing members of the ETF.[16] The majority of the episode reused substantial portions of the unaired Critical Incident pilot together with new footage featuring Amy Jo Johnson and Mark Taylor (who were not in the pilot).[17] Director David Frazee carefully shot the SRU as one unit to demonstrate their unity.[18] Producer Anne Marie La Traverse said the show would take people to their "own personal flash point."[19] David Paetkau, one of the show's regular cast members, said Flashpoint "tries to capture the human element involved in policing, and discusses how some officers end up with emotional baggage and suffer with mental illnesses like post traumatic stress disorder."[20] Input and advice from various ETF personnel were used in making the series.[21]
On August 25, 2008, CTV announced it had renewed the show for a second season of 13 episodes to begin production in Toronto in early 2009.[22] Some months later, both CTV and CBS increased the renewal to 18 episodes. According to tvguide.com, CBS announced that Flashpoint would return January 9, 2009, at 9 pm for a midseason start. In the United States and Canada, the remaining four episodes that were originally produced for season 1 aired as a part of season 2.[23][24] CTV in Canada originally considered these episodes as part of season 1; however, after the airing of the fourth episode (which was originally considered the final episode of season 1), CTV changed the labelling of these four episodes and, following CBS, began considering them part of season 2. CBS and CTV both ended season 2 on May 25, 2009, after airing only the first nine episodes produced. The second nine episodes, filmed from May to August 2009, were originally aired in Canada by CTV as season 3. CTV officially began to refer to the episodes as the second half of season 2 (and altered its Flashpoint website accordingly). These episodes began airing June 4, 2010, on CBS, where they are considered part of season 3.[25]
Season 3 was commissioned by CTV and CBS in October 2009.[26] The first episode of the season began filming on January 13, 2010. This gave CBS 22 original episodes to broadcast while CTV had 13. CBS completed broadcasting season 2 on July 30, 2010. season 3 premiered on July 16, 2010, on both CTV and CBS.[27][28] After entering a hiatus in mid-September after the broadcast of seven episodes from season 3, CTV resumed airing the remaining episodes on January 4, 2011.[29] CTV ordered production of season 4 of Flashpoint on June 3, 2010, before season 3 began to air.[30] On January 21, 2011, it was announced that CBS would air 7 of the 18 episodes from season 4, as well as the remaining 6 episodes from season 3 not yet shown on CBS, during the summer of 2011. Due to the cancellation of CHAOS, the remaining episodes from season 3 of Flashpoint were shown on CBS starting May 6, 2011.[31] The remaining 11 episodes from season 4 began airing on ION Television in October of that year.[32]
Filming of season 4 took place between February 14 and September 15, 2011.[33] On May 9, 2011, CTV announced that season 4 would begin airing on June 17, 2011, to be simulcast by CBS.[34] On June 1, 2011, Bell Media announced that the network ordered a fifth season of Flashpoint, containing 18 new episodes,[35][36] starting to air in Canada in September 2012. Filming of season 5 took place between February 9 and June 27, 2012.[37] The show producers later revealed that the order had been shortened to 13 episodes. On May 1, 2012, the producers announced on their Facebook page that they had decided season 5 would be their last.[38] CTV confirmed the reduction in the episode order and the ending of the show on May 1.[39] The two-part series finale aired on December 13, 2012.
Setting
Flashpoint is set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. However, for much of the series' early run, the setting was largely left vague. According to Enrico Colantoni, the setting was officially left unidentified.[40] Bill Mustos, founder of co-production company Avamar Entertainment, stated this was intentional, commenting, "you're not going to see a show that is screaming 'Canada.' It's a show in a big sophisticated urban city where crises take place. The stories we're trying to tell are universal stories."[41] CTV's press release regarding the series, however, identified the setting as Toronto.[42]
Toronto locations, such as streets and communities in the Greater Toronto Area; landmarks and major locations such as the CN Tower, York University, and the Eaton Centre; real and fictional Toronto-based newspapers such as the Toronto Interpreter and "The Star" (likely the Toronto Star); Toronto Transit Commission stations and vehicles; Government of Ontario and City of Toronto government documents such as driver's licenses; and Canadian brands and products such as Tim Hortons; are mentioned, shown, or are even the focal points or settings of episodes. Emergency services personnel and equipment, most prominently emergency vehicle liveries and uniform designs, are strongly based on those of the Toronto Police Service, Toronto Fire Services, and Toronto Paramedic Services, and clearly display the Canadian flag, with some even having "Toronto" emblazoned on them. Details relating to military personnel and veterans also imply the military is the Canadian Armed Forces.
The Toronto setting becomes increasingly evident over the course of the series. Season 2 episode 13, "Exit Wounds", mentions nearby police in York Region and Durham Region, which are close to Toronto, marking one of the earliest direct mentions of a Canadian setting. "Toronto" is first spoken in the second part of the season 2 finale, "Behind the Blue Line", in reference to the Toronto Maple Leafs. By season 5 and the series finale, "Keep the Peace", Flashpoint's setting is effectively confirmed as Toronto: the Peel Regional Police, Halton Regional Police Service, York Regional Police, and Durham Regional Police Service are mentioned as part of emergency crews from nearby regions that are ordered to respond to terrorist attacks in Toronto; Toronto City Hall appears as a location and is identified by name; and CFB Borden, a Canadian Armed Forces base approximately 80 kilometers north of Toronto, is mentioned to be providing a triage centre and military assistance.
Music
The show's 30-second theme was written by Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.[43] The music of Hugh Dillon, Matthew Good, Amy Jo Johnson and Kim Taylor have also been used in the show's soundtrack.[44] Johnson's song "Dancing In-between" was used in the ending of episode six of the first season, "Attention Shoppers" with Dillon's "Lost at Sea" used to conclude the eighth episode, "Never Kissed a Girl". The song "Open Your Eyes" by Tracenine was featured in the episode "Perfect Storm".[45] Songs from Hugh Dillon can also be heard in season 2 episode 12 "Just a Man" (song "Don't Be Fooled") and the episode that concluded season 3 episode 13, "Fault Lines" (song "My Mistakes"). "Goodbye," a song written and performed by Amy Jo Johnson, features in season 3 episode 10, "Terror."[43][44]
Crossover
Flashpoint crossed over with The Listener, when the Flashpoint character Michaelangelo "Spike" Scarlatti was leaving the hospital after receiving medical attention and interacted with The Listener character Osman "Oz" Bey who had just brought a patient to the hospital.[excessive detail?]
Ratings and reception
Canada
Note that each Canadian television season starts with the Monday of the week that includes the first day of September.[46][47]
| Season | Timeslot (ET) | # Ep. | Premiered | Ended | TV Season | Viewers (in millions) | ||
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| Date | Premiere Viewers (in millions) | Date | Finale Viewers (in millions) | |||||
| 1 | Friday 10:00 pm (1–2) Thursday 10:00 pm (3–9) Friday 10:00 pm (10–13) | 13 | July 11, 2008 | 1.110[48] | February 13, 2009 | 1.292[49] | 2008–2009 | 1.255 |
| 2 | Friday 9:00 pm | 18 | February 27, 2009 | 1.339[50] | November 20, 2009 | 1.589[51] | 2009 | 1.489 |
| 3 | Friday 10:00 pm (1–7) Tuesday 10:00 pm (8–12) Sunday 10:00 pm (13) | 13 | July 16, 2010 | 1.334[52] | February 6, 2011 | 1.317[53] | 2010–2011 | 1.650[54] |
| 4 | Friday 8:00 pm (1–7) Monday 8:00 pm (8) Tuesday 8:00 pm (9–18) | 18 | July 8, 2011 | 1.369[55] | December 13, 2011 | 1.208[56] | 2011 | 1.510[57] |
| 5 | Thursday 10:00 pm | 13 | September 20, 2012 | 1.412[58] | December 13, 2012 | 2.077 | 2012 | 1.800[59] |
The pilot episode was watched on CTV by 1.11 million viewers, earning the No. 1 spot in its timeslot.[48] Flashpoint drew in 1,216,000 viewers during the week of July 28, 2008.[60] It gained a bit more audience when the show drew in 1,300,000 viewers.[61] In ratings for the week of February 23, 2009, Flashpoint has been watched by 1,339,000 viewers.[62] CTV announced that a new series of Flashpoint episodes would air in the fall of 2009 on Friday nights at 10:00 pm ET.[63] These episodes would not be simulcast with CBS. After CBS delayed broadcasting the episodes from summer 2009 to mid-season 2010, CTV initially backed off its commitment to fall 2009.[64] Eventually in late August, CTV announced that the new episodes would premiere in Canada on September 25, 2009.[65] It marked the first time CTV broadcast new Flashpoint episodes out of simulcast with CBS in the United States. The last original Flashpoint episode for the Canadian fall 2009 season was broadcast on November 20, 2009. Two Flashpoint episodes from the first season—"Attention Shoppers" and "Who's George?"—were nominated as finalists in the 2009 WGC Screenwriting Awards.[66]
United States
| Season | Episodes | Timeslot (ET) | Original airing | Rank (viewers) | Viewers (in millions) | Network | ||
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| Season premiere | Season finale | TV season | ||||||
| 1 | 13 | Friday 10:00 pm (July 11–18) Thursday 10:00 pm (July 25 – September 18) Friday 9:00 pm (January 9 – February 13) | July 11, 2008 January 9, 2009 (2nd Half) | September 18, 2008 (1st Half) February 13, 2009 | 2007–08 | N/A | 7.61 | CBS |
| 2 | 18 | Friday 9:00 pm | February 27, 2009 June 4, 2010 (2nd Half) | May 15, 2009 (1st Half) July 9, 2010 | 2008–09 | 48 | 9.48[67] | |
| 3 | 13 | Friday 10:00 pm | July 16, 2010 May 6, 2011 (2nd Half) | September 17, 2010 (1st Half) June 17, 2011 | 2009–10 | N/A | 7.13[68] | |
| 4 | 18 | Friday 8:00 pm (July 8 – August 19) Tuesday 10:00 pm (October 18 – January 24) | July 8, 2011 (CBS) October 18, 2011 (ION) | August 19, 2011 (CBS) January 24, 2012 (ION) | 2010–11 | N/A | 6.25 | CBS/ION |
| 5 | 13 | Tuesday 11:00 pm | October 16, 2012 | January 22, 2013 | 2012–13 | TBA | TBA | ION |
The Boston Globe praised Flashpoint for using emotion that "lingers on the psychic toll that such high-tension work can take."[69] The pilot episode was watched on CBS by 8.23 million people, earning the No. 1 ranking for the hour.[70] According to Flashpoint executive Bill Mustos in August 2008, the success of the show in the U.S. was not due to the Writer's Guild strikes, but mainly because of the need of having a new kind of show on television.[71] Flashpoint did well in its initial airings on Friday nights (in the time slot normally given to Numb3rs), building on the lead-in from that show, to the point that it drew more viewers on Friday nights than Swingtown, another new drama, did on the normally busier Thursday nights, which prompted CBS to move Flashpoint to Thursday nights in an attempt to further build its audience.[72] On December 2, 2008, CBS announced that they would begin airing the second season of Flashpoint on January 9, 2009.[73] A third season of Flashpoint was to have aired as a midseason replacement during CBS's 2009–2010 schedule;[74][75] however, CBS announced it would air these episodes during the summer of 2009 beginning on July 17, 2009, instead of its previously announced 2010 timetable. On July 7, 2009, CBS rescinded its decision and the show aired midseason after all.[76] These were the same episodes that CTV broadcast in Canada during the fall 2009 season. CBS began airing these episodes on June 4, 2010.[77] The remainder of the third season was broadcast on CBS beginning May 6, 2011.[31] On Metacritic, Flashpoint has mixed to average reviews, scoring 51 out of 100 on the site's metascore.[78]
Awards and nominations
| Year | Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
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| 2009 | Gemini Awards | Best Dramatic Series | Flashpoint | Won[79] |
| Best Direction in a Dramatic Series | Kelly Makin | Won[79] | ||
| Best Writing in a Dramatic Series | Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern | Nominated | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Enrico Colantoni | Won[80] | ||
| Hugh Dillon | Nominated | |||
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Amy Jo Johnson | Nominated | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series | Nicholas Campbell | Nominated[81] | ||
| Henry Czerny | Won[81] | |||
| Mpho Koaho | Nominated[81] | |||
| Ron Lea | Nominated[81] | |||
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series | Tatiana Maslany | Won[81] | ||
| ACTRA Awards | Outstanding Performance – Female | Sarah Gadon | Nominated | |
| 2010 | Gemini Awards | Best Dramatic Series | Flashpoint | Nominated |
| Best Direction in a Dramatic Series | David Frazee | Won[82] | ||
| Stephen Surjik | Nominated[82] | |||
| Best Writing in a Dramatic Series | Ian Weir | Won | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series | Sergio Di Zio | Nominated | ||
| Mark Taylor | Nominated | |||
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series | Jessica Steen | Nominated | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series | Michael Riley | Won[82] | ||
| Hugh Thompson | Nominated[82] | |||
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series | Ona Grauer | Nominated[82] | ||
| Laurence Leboeuf | Nominated[82] | |||
| 2011 | Gemini Awards | Best Dramatic Series | Flashpoint | Nominated |
| Best Direction in a Dramatic Series | David Frazee | Nominated[83] | ||
| Best Writing in a Dramatic Series | Mark Ellis, Stephanie Morgenstern | Won | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Enrico Colantoni | Nominated | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series | Sergio Di Zio | Won | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series | Colin Cunningham | Nominated[83] | ||
| Tim Rozon | Won[83] | |||
| Jonathan Scarfe | Nominated[83] | |||
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Guest Role, Dramatic Series | Liisa Repo-Martell | Nominated[83] | ||
| Kristen Thomson | Nominated[83] | |||
| 2012 | WGC Canadian Screenwriting Awards | Best Television Drama | Larry Bambrick | Won[84] |
| 2013 | Canadian Screen Awards | Best Dramatic Series | Flashpoint | Won[85] |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Enrico Colantoni | Won[85] | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Series | Michael Cram | Nominated | ||
| Sergio Di Zio | Nominated | |||
| Best Direction in a Dramatic Series | Jim Donovan | Won[86] | ||
| Best Writing in a Dramatic Series | Aubrey Nealon | Won[86] | ||
| 2014 | Canadian Screen Awards | Best Dramatic Series | Flashpoint | Nominated |
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role | Hugh Dillon | Won[87] | ||
| Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Series | Sergio Di Zio | Nominated |
Home media
In DVD region 1, Phase 4 Films released all five seasons on DVD in Canada, while in the US CBS DVD (distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment) has released the first four seasons; the final season was released on March 18, 2014.[88] On November 5, 2013, Phase 4 Films released Flashpoint: The Complete Series on DVD in Canada.[89] The 19-disc set features all 75 episodes of the series as well as bonus features. In Region 2, ITV DVD released the complete first season on DVD in the UK on April 13, 2009.[90] In France, Koba Films has released the first three seasons on DVD. In Region 3, STG Multimedia released the complete first season on DVD in Thailand on April 9, 2011. The complete second season was released on May 20, 2011. In Region 4, Hopscotch Entertainment has released the first three seasons on DVD in Australia.[91]
| Release name | Ep # | Region 1 (US) | Region 1 (Canada) | Region 2 (UK) | Region 4 (Australia) | DVD Special Features |
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| Season One | 13 | October 13, 2009 | October 13, 2009 | August 25, 2010 | April 16, 2009 |
Note: Special features available in Region 1. |
| Season Two | 18 | November 19, 2010 | May 25, 2010 | N/A | March 4, 2010 (Part 1) April 15, 2010 (Part 2) |
Note: Special features available in Region 1. |
| Season Three | 13 | May 22, 2012 | May 17, 2011 | January 19, 2011 | May 19, 2011 |
Note: Special features available in Region 1. |
| Season Four | 18 | October 16, 2012 | May 15, 2012 | December 14, 2012 | August 1, 2018 |
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| Season Five | 13 | August 27, 2013 | May 7, 2013 | N/A | September 5, 2018 |
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| Flashpoint: The Complete Series | N/A | November 5, 2013 | N/A | November 1, 2018 (as Flashpoint Complete Collection) |
International distribution
Flashpoint was distributed by Alchemy Television and Tele München Group to all international markets outside of North America.[92]
In July 2008, it was announced that the two distributors had sold the series to TV networks in 50 countries outside Canada and the United States, including New Zealand (TV2), the United Kingdom (ITV3 and Universal Channel), France, Austria (ORF), Germany, Switzerland, Italy (RAI), Spain, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Croatia, Australia (Nine Network), and several countries in Latin America.[93] By December 2008, only nine of the 13 episodes produced during the series' first season had been aired in North America, although all 13 episodes had been aired by New Zealand's TV2 as of December 10, 2008.
The Australian premiere occurred on January 11, 2009, when Nine Network took the unusual step of airing the second episode in isolation ahead of the season. It followed a cricket telecast in a relatively late Sunday night timeslot.[94] Nine aired the show on Wednesday nights, its regular time slot, where episodes were erratically shown out of their intended order. Nine took the show off air soon after, but it returned to air during summer non-ratings on Monday November 30, 2009, at 9.30 pm, and was taken off air again only two weeks later.[citation needed]
Further foreign debuts of Flashpoint occurred well after the series had ended. In Latin America, the series debuted in Mexico in TV Azteca in 2012. In Thailand, the series aired on Channel 5 on February 25, 2016.[95]
See also
- S.W.A.T. (1975 TV series) – A similar series following an American SWAT team, also set in an unidentified city strongly based on its filming location
- S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series) – A remake of the 1975 series, following a Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team
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