Cops L.A.C.

Cops L.A.C.
Intertitle of Cops L.A.C.
Also known as	Cops: Local Area Command
Genre	Police procedural Drama
Starring	Kate Ritchie Martin Dingle-Wall Ria Vandervis Tom O'Sullivan Kelly Paterniti Graeme Squires Gary Sweet Denise Roberts Roy Billing Damian De Montemas
Theme music composer	"Howlin' for You" by The Black Keys
Country of origin	Australia
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13 (List of episodes)
Production
Location(s)	Sydney, New South Wales
Running time	Approxiamately 1 hour
Broadcast
Original channel	Nine Network
Picture format	1080i (HDTV) 576i / 576p (SDTV)
Audio format	Stereo
Original run	2 September 2010 – 11 November 2010
Chronology
Related shows	Rescue: Special Ops

Cops L.A.C. (Cops: Local Area Command) is a 2010 Australian television police drama, which screened on the Nine Network. The series followed the work of officers at the Seaview Local Area Command, a fictitious police response area of the 'State Police' set in harbourside Sydney, New South Wales. The first series premiered on 2 September 2010, in the same timeslot of Network Ten's police drama Rush.^[1]

On 22 November 2010, the Nine Network cancelled the show due to the high production costs, low ratings and negative reviews.^[2]

Contents 1 Cast 1.1 Main cast 1.2 Recurring Cast 2 Plot 3 Production 4 Ratings 5 References 6 External links

Cast

Main cast

Actor[3]	Role[3]	First Episode	Last Episode
Kate Ritchie	Det. Senior Constable Samantha 'Sam' Cooper	1.01	1.13
Martin Dingle-Wall	Det. Senior Constable Rhys Llewellyn	1.01	1.13
Ria Vandervis	Det. Senior Constable Roxanne Perez	1.01	1.13
Tom O'Sullivan	Senior Constable Nathan Holt	1.01	1.13
Kelly Paterniti	Constable Priscilla Smith 'Smithy'	1.01	1.13
Graeme Squires	Probationary Constable Daniel van der Mark	1.01	1.13
Gary Sweet	Superintendent Jack Finch	1.01	1.13
Denise Roberts	Det. Inspector Dianne Pappas	1.01	1.13
Roy Billing	Senior Sergeant Graeme Sinclair	1.01	1.13
Damian De Montemas	Senior Constable Matt 'Matilda' Hilton	1.01	1.13

Recurring Cast

Actor[3]	Role[3]	First Episode	Last Episode
Ivy Mak	Fran Barker	1.01	1.13
Sophie Katanis	Constable Terese Drake	1.01	1.08
Jonny Pasvolsky	Zac Butler	1.01	1.13

Plot

Cops L.A.C. revolves around the police operations of Seaview Local Area Command. Superintendent Jack Finch, a seasoned officer is the Local Area Commander, with Crime Manager Detective Inspector Diane Pappas at his side. The uniforms stationed at Seaview handle anything from general police response calls, to investigation of assaults and muggings; with detectives dealing with cases involving drug dealers and car crashes, shootings, stabbings and armed robbery.^[4]

Production

The first series consisted of thirteen episodes and was initiated by Jo Horsburgh and commissioned by the Nine Network in 2009, it was produced by Diane Haddon,^[5] Lisa Scott and in-house by the Nine Network Drama Department. Production started on 27 May 2010 and ended on 11 November 2010, after various schelduling changes. Tim Pye, a writer on the series described the show as “like The Bill but with a higher body count.” When researching the real-life Local Area Command, he discovered “the more you research the business of policing, the more wondrous it is that people do it… But they stick with it and love it.”^[6] Filming will wrapped up for the first series in mid-September 2010.^[7]

In November 2010, it was reported that the show had been labelled a "dud". Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, an insider said that the show was almost certain to be axed after production on a Christmas DVD of the drama was cancelled.^[8]

Ratings

Episode	Date Aired	Timeslot	Rating	Nightly Rank	Weekly Rank
1.01	2 September 2010	Thursday 8:30pm	1,168,000[9]	4[9]	25[10]
1.02	9 September 2010		925,000[11]	11[11]	46[12]
1.03	16 September 2010		763,000[13]	14[13]	67[14]
1.04	23 September 2010		529,000[15] (did not air in Melbourne)	22[15]	N/A[16]
1.05	30 September 2010		715,000[17]	17[17]	74[18]
1.06	7 October 2010		670,000[19]	14[19]	65[20]
1.07	14 October 2010		681,000[21]	13[21]	62[22]
1.08	21 October 2010	Thursday 9:30pm	487,000[23]	23[23]	N/A[24]
1.09	28 October 2010		560,000[25]	21[25]	99[26]
1.10	4 November 2010		595,000[27]	20[27]	90[28]
1.11		Thursday 10:30pm	410,000[27]	31[27]	N/A[28]
1.12	11 November 2010	Thursday 9:30pm	574,000[29]	22[29]	93[30]
1.13		Thursday 10:30pm	440,000[29]	27[29]	N/A[30]
Series Average	---	---	655,000	18	N/A

References

External links

• Cops L.A.C. on Metacritic