that defies the whole purpose of doing it the way I'm talking about doing it. 'All right then,' Diller said. 'You gotta do some reenactments.' And I said no. 'Whattayamean no?' And I kept doing this with him because my feeling was I'm not gonna sell out my idea anymore. To hell with 'em all. Ultimately a pilot episode was ordered, which garnered mixed reviews among Fox executives owing to the overly graphic nature of a murder scene which was featured. After viewing the pilot, the network's executives, along with News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch, began to debate the future of the show with Langley in attendance. Langley later recalled: And this guy came in the room and sat in the corner. He looked like an accountant. [After further debate] the guy in the corner says, 'Order four of them. Try four [episodes].' And I look over and Diller says, 'Ah, you hush, I'm talking right now.' And I thought, 'Well, who's that guy, the accountant?' Well, obviously, it turned out that he wasn't the accountant. It was Rupert Murdoch, but [in those days] nobody knew who Rupert Murdoch was or what he looked like. Cops was cancelled by Fox in 2013, and was picked up by what was then Spike, which was now the Paramount Network. The show aired its 32nd season on Paramount Network while continuing its national run on syndicated and cable TV, thus becoming one of the longest running reality series in television history. The show has broken records for primetime network television with over 1000 episodes aired (as of 2017). In June 2020, Paramount Network pulled the program from its schedule in response to national protests against the murder of George Floyd while being arrested by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, and announced its cancellation days later. The program's last episode on the network aired on May 11, 2020. Production recommenced in September of that year for international markets, and in September 2021, it was announced that Fox Nation picked up the show, with the 33rd season premiering on October 1, 2021. In 1992, Barbour/Langley Productions moved to a new location in Orlando, Florida. Barbour retired in 1994 and the production company became simply Langley Productions. Other work Among Langley's credits are Who Murdered JFK, an examination of the John F. Kennedy assassination; and Terrorism: Target U.S.A. (1989), an early warning of the coming