# Would you watch a UK police program, probably circa 1 hour in length? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 22, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467 "2012-10-22T00:13:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/1 "2012-10-22T00:13:44Z")
I am interested in posting a link to a youtube vid of a program following UK police (don’t worry, would be fine in terms of copyright legality and so on) but if I went to the effort of doing that and starting the thread I would want to to know that a decent number of Americans would watch it and make comments. So poll included. I would make sure it was entertaining, and not a drag 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/2 "2012-10-22T00:20:11Z")
No; too long. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/3 "2012-10-22T00:21:51Z")
Is it like “Cops” but in the UK? If so then yes, that sounds interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/4 "2012-10-22T00:27:07Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > Is it like “Cops” but in the UK? If so then yes, that sounds interesting. It would be very much like Cops (I have quite a lot of programs to choose from!) but less “instant gratification”-y. Which is not to say that it will be dry and boring. It’s still a TV program for a general audience after all 😃 The basic idea in showing it would be to ask for impressions of a) difference in police procedures and b) differences in sentences - but no doubt other cool stuff would come up. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/5 "2012-10-22T00:29:53Z")
I’m going to slide this over to CS since it’s about a program. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/6 "2012-10-22T00:46:58Z")
I would watch it eventually but probably not anytime soon to participate in a thread. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/7 "2012-10-22T00:51:56Z")
You know, I voted yes but I’m not sure I’m going to have time to do this anytime soon either. So I guess my answer is “yes but only if watching it two weeks from now is okay.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/8 "2012-10-22T01:28:19Z")
I don’t get it. How would the effort involved in posting that other thread with the link be any greater than the effort involved in posting this thread? ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/9 "2012-10-22T03:12:58Z")
I’d give it a gander but it’d have to be damn interesting to keep my attention for an hour. I like listening to Brits talk, though, so chances are I wouldn’t wander off. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/10 "2012-10-22T03:28:06Z")
What’s it called, _World’s Mildest Police Videos_? ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/11 "2012-10-22T03:42:26Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > What’s it called, _World’s Mildest Police Videos_? _Police Without Guns Tell People Off_ NB I am in the UK and sometimes watch these programmes, the police in them also get to arrest drunken bleeding idiots (that’s bleeding in the literal sense) and chase twokkers\* with helicopters\*\*. \*car thieves, taking without official consent \*\* it’s the police who are in the helicopters not the twokkers. I would watch a programme about helicopter thieves though. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/12 "2012-10-22T03:43:33Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > What’s it called, _World’s Mildest Police Videos_? Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/13 "2012-10-22T05:48:26Z")
I chose “Some other option,” aka **No**. Police are interesting; police _shows_ are boring. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/14 "2012-10-22T07:47:55Z")
Yes, but since I’m not American, I don’t count 😛 ---
**Author:** ![palacheck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e57/32.png) [@palacheck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/palacheck)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/15 "2012-10-22T09:01:18Z")
On the record: I’m not interested in officially voting in this poll or participating in the upcoming thread to somehow further **Simple Linctus** ’ singular agenda on this board. Off the record? Sure I would. Post the link already you coy little devil you. ---
**Author:** ![nomdenet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4af34b/32.png) [@nomdenet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nomdenet)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/16 "2012-10-22T10:54:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t get it. How would the effort involved in posting that other thread with the link be any greater than the effort involved in posting this thread? Perhaps he should have started another thread to discuss whether this pre-thread poll was worth posting. Jumping straight in with the poll may have been a little rash. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/17 "2012-10-22T11:22:39Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > What’s it called, _World’s Mildest Police Videos_? _What’s All This, Then: the Musical_ ---
**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/18 "2012-10-22T11:25:23Z")
I would also like to know what the programme is. There are some unwatchable police shows here in the UK but also a couple of really interesting and well made ones. If its one of the latter I will heartily recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/19 "2012-10-22T12:42:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > What’s it called, _World’s Mildest Police Videos_? You joke, but here in the UK one channel shows a _New Zealand_ police video programme. It makes the British ones (like _Police Camera Action_) look like Tarantino. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467/20 "2012-10-22T12:51:26Z")
When things get heated, voices get raised, accents thicken, folks drop into lingo unfamiliar to many American’s, even if they _could_ understand what was being said. I love British shows and have a pretty good ears for following along, figuring things out from context, etc. But this is one of my complaints about British shows, you can muddle your way through, well enough, right up to the most climatic scene, wherein, understandably, things are intense and moving quickly, and suddenly you can’t understand what they are saying. Pisses me off, when it happens. And turns me off British shows. The ones that avoid this pitfall, I assume, make an effort to do so. Something to think about. I’d probably watch it for a few minutes, but if I couldn’t understand the language, I’d be gone pretty quick. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-watch-a-uk-police-program-probably-circa-1-hour-in-length/638467.md?page=2)