Are living’ Renewed For 90 Episodes at Reelz, Provides Las Vegas

“On Patrol: Are living,” the weekly reside sequence that follows cops in motion across the nation, has been ordered for any other season by way of Reelz — maintaining the display happening Friday and Saturday nights throughout the get started of 2026. The deal requires 90 new episodes of the sequence, which airs 3 hours continue to exist each nights — bringing it to any other 270 hours general.

The deal additionally comprises any other 90 one-hour episodes of “On Patrol: First Shift,” the spin-off display that airs as a lead-in to “On Patrol: Are living.” “On Patrol: Are living” airs continue to exist Friday and Saturday nights from 9 p.m. to Middle of the night ET, whilst “On Patrol: First Shift,” which options updates on earlier episodes, airs at 8 p.m. ET. The displays air at the Reelz cable channel, and also are to be had to circulate reside or view on call for on Peacock (which added Reelz to its Peacock Top class and Peacock Top class Plus subscribers in 2023).

“It’s an amazing quantity of programming,” Reelz CEO Stan E. Hubbard informed Selection. “Nevertheless it’s operating for us, at a time when cable networks are most often below a large number of drive. It’s a supply of satisfaction… we’re all about ‘On Patrol: Are living’ now, that’s what this community is.”

Reelz has observed its rankings shoot up since “On Patrol: Are living” introduced in July 2022; that 12 months, the community’s viewership lept 107%, adopted by way of any other 34% in 2023. Reelz dipped a little bit in 2024, however on steadiness the community’s target market remains to be manner up, and now a best 40 rated cabler, since including “OPL.” In keeping with Reelz, its primetime target market is up 292% for the reason that release of “On Patrol: Are living” in July 2022.

“My Friday and Saturday nights at the moment are dedicated for the following 12 months,” stated host and govt manufacturer Dan Abrams. “I’m hopeful and positive that there’s no actual result in sight for this display. I believe it’s a excellent display from a TV standpoint, however I additionally suppose it’s the most important one for other folks to get slightly glimpse at what legislation enforcement does each day.”

The renewal comes following the agreement of A+E Networks’ copyright lawsuit towards Reelz and Amazon-owned Giant Fish Leisure over the display. Giant Fish had produced “Are living PD” for A&E, which then pulled the display in summer season 2020, following the killing of George Floyd in Minnesota.

Giant Fish revived the display’s reside police structure on Reelz, however below the identify: “On Patrol: Are living.” Abrams, who hosted “Are living PD,” returned to anchor the brand new display as smartly. That led A+E to report a lawsuit searching for to dam Reelz from airing “On Patrol: Are living,” which it claimed is a blatant ripoff of “Are living PD,” and that A+E owned the highbrow assets. Each side settled in November, permitting “On Patrol: Are living” to proceed on Reelz.

“It was once a distraction, that distraction’s at the back of us,” Hubbard stated of transferring on from the felony skirmish. “I don’t suppose you’ll see the display glance any other. We’ve been complete pace forward with with the manufacturers and the hosts from the time we began. Nevertheless it’s great to have it at the back of us and simply now not have to fret about it anymore.”

Added Abrams: “I believe that everybody on either side of that is is relieved that that’s at the back of us, and I believe that everybody is happy that there isn’t that lawsuit. I don’t suppose, as a sensible subject, it’s going to have an enormous have an effect on on at the display itself… I wasn’t the defendant within the lawsuit. So from my standpoint, I’m happy that A&E and Giant Fish have resolved it. Solution is a superb factor.”

As “On Patrol: Are living” returns for its new season on Jan. 31, the display has added the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division to the listing of police departments and sheriff’s places of work that experience allowed the display to embed with reside cameras. That incorporates the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Workplace (S.C.); Brookford Police Division (N.C.); Clayton County Sheriff’s Workplace (Ga.); Daytona Seaside Police Division (Fla.); Hazen Police Division (Ark.); Humboldt County Sheriff’s Workplace (Calif.); Knox County Sheriff’s Workplace (Tenn.); Monroe Police Division (L. a..); and Richland County Sheriff’s Division (S.C.).

Additionally new this season, Howell Township Police Dept. (N.J.) captain Tom Rizzo has joined “On Patrol: Are living” as a full-time analyst. He’ll sign up for Abrams, Richland County Sheriff’s Division (Columbia, S.C.) deputy sheriff Curtis Wilson and retired Tulsa Police Dept. Sgt. Sean “Sticks” Larkin at the display, in conjunction with a rotating panel of mavens.

“Sooner than this sort of display, the one actual view that individuals had within the legislation enforcement was once both within the purely leisure area, or one thing like ‘Law enforcement officials,’ which is highlighted moments of policing,” Abrams stated. “And it doesn’t in reality provide the true sense of what it’s love to be a police officer. What this display supplies is it means that you can see because the officer will get the decision, as they reply to the decision, and in lots of instances, as they way a automobile with out realizing precisely who’s within the automobile. It’s a mixture of extra mundane moments, as a result of a large number of policing is mundane, and really top octane moments, as a result of a few of policing is top octane as smartly. And I believe the truth that the display displays either one of the ones permits it to replicate policing in The us.”

Abrams additionally identified the complexity of the printed, which incorporates 50 cameras around the nation following legislation enforcement, in addition to box manufacturers and video loggers, in addition to manufacturers within the studio maintaining tabs on what’s happening. “I’ve labored on a large number of of displays,” he stated. “I’ve by no means labored on a display this is as complicated as as this one.”

“On Patrol: Are living” additionally options segments about lacking individuals, together with the Nationwide Middle for Lacking & Exploited Kids (NCMEC) and the Black and Lacking Basis (BAMFI). The display stated it has helped in finding 35 lacking other folks up to now.

Giant Fish subsidiary Part Moon Photos produces “On Patrol: Are living” for Reelz; Dan Cesareo, John Zito, Lucilla D’Agostino, Paul Gordon, Joe Venafro and Abrams are exec manufacturers.