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Username: Gingellgirl
Post Number: 114
Registered: 04-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 4:36 pm: |    |
Al Roker to announce Detroit-based TV show
"DEA" to air on the Spike channel; Thursday announcement set
January 9, 2008
FREE PRESS STAFF REPORTS
"Today” show weatherman and TV production entrepreneur Al Roker will be in Detroit Thursday to talk about a new television series that will be shot totally on location in Detroit.
Spike TV, Al Roker Entertainment, Inc. and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are partnering on the reality-based show, titled “DEA.”
Spike, a CBS-owned cable and dish channel that aims predominantly at male viewers, will have exclusive access to a group of Detroit special agents and task force officers as they tackle the region’s illegal drug problem.
Cases involving the shutting down of street-level dealers and the stopping of international traffickers will be featured.
The six-episode series will premiere on Spike TV this spring. |
Thejesus
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Username: Thejesus
Post Number: 3197
Registered: 06-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 4:53 pm: | |
this is pretty sweet.
I hope people understand too that what makes Detroit an attractive location for a show like this is the city's proximity to the Canadian border, and not some unusually high drug consumption problem that exists here but not in other places...
there's a ton of drug running that takes place across that border and good chunk of the federal drug cases at the federal court downtown (probably as high as one-third of them from what I've seen first-hand) involve people trying to bring drugs into the country from Canada |
Detroitnerd
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Username: Detroitnerd
Post Number: 1757
Registered: 07-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 4:58 pm: | |
Legalize it. |
401don
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Username: 401don
Post Number: 200
Registered: 11-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 5:05 pm: | |
48 Hours, Detroit Swat, DEA, yeah, another show featuring Detroit crime is just what the Visitor & Convention Bureau was hoping for. |
Kid_dynamite
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Username: Kid_dynamite
Post Number: 445
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 5:08 pm: | |
Don't forget Animal Cops: Detroit |
Focusonthed
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Username: Focusonthed
Post Number: 1587
Registered: 02-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 09, 2008 - 5:46 pm: | |
Just as frequently, Miami is featured on 48 Hours.
And whenever one turns on Cops, there's a 75% chance it will be featuring Vegas.
Yet people still flock there. |
Philm
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Username: Philm
Post Number: 43
Registered: 03-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 2:44 pm: | |
Legalize it
Increased tax revenues
Lower crime
'Problem' solved |
Mauser765
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Username: Mauser765
Post Number: 2323
Registered: 01-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 2:49 pm: | |
Roker is a human Mr Potato Head. I hate that guy. This is his one millionth get rich scheme. |
Southofeight
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Username: Southofeight
Post Number: 127
Registered: 07-2005
| | Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 8:59 am: | |
Yeah, it's the networks' fault people think of Detroit as the Midwest's armpit. |
Wally
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Username: Wally
Post Number: 365
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 - 9:16 am: | |
The "war on drugs" is really a war on the people. Now they're going to "entertain" us with it? Sick. |
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