It’s Christmas, the season for bad TV, and so here’s another post detailing another new reality TV show on US telly.
Remember when the Sheriff would get a posse together to round up the bad guys? Well things have moved on since the Old West days and now Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa Count, Arizona has called on TV producers to join his deputies in catching criminals in “Smile … You’re Under Arrest!”
A cross between “Punk’d” and “Cops,” the program sets up elaborate sting operations to snare people wanted on outstanding warrants. Actors and undercover deputies play along in faux scenarios where scofflaws are enticed to have a good time; the drama comes when cast members reveal the prank and waiting deputies slap on handcuffs.
Sounds like good clean honest crime-busting fun to me.
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