This is a weird show. There is very real crime and law enforcement going on, but then you add this weird Hollywood Steven Seagal celebrity stuff, and you just kind of shake your head. But I guess it is a big enough hit to where they want this show overseas. Now imagine if Chuck Norris did a ride along, or Steven either shot someone or got shot in a scene? I wonder if Steven will do those stunts and if real blood will be involved. Reality TV?…….yikes.
The other funny deal with this, is the guy is from Michigan, and yet he turns on this cajun/Louisiana accent in prime Hollywood fashion, at just the right moments. Or when he is trying to get all Zen-like with everyone, I imagine the guys he is with are just rolling their eyes. lol –Matt
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Steven Seagal and ‘Lawman’ are good for Jefferson Parish, Sheriff Newell Normand says
By Dave Walker, The Times-Picayune
February 24, 2010, 9:37AM
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office has gone global thanks to the recent international roll-out of “Steven Seagal Lawman.”
courtesy of A&EThe star of the A&E reality show “Steven Seagal: Lawman,” in a scene for the series’ first episode.
Now airing in the UK, Israel, France, Turkey, Australia, Southeast Asia, Russia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Finland, Sweden, Hungary, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Slovenia and soon to launch in Latin America, the series, which places action-adventure film star Steven Seagal and the A&E network’s reality-TV cameras on patrol with the JPSO, has resulted in “hundreds upon hundreds” of comments to Sheriff Newell Normand.
Coming from “law enforcement, county officials as well as individual citizens,” most are “overwhelmingly positive,” Normand said last week.
So signing on for another batch of episodes — the first season of which concluded Feb. 3 in the U.S. — was an easy call.
The A&E cable network, in conjunction with the production entities ITV Studios and Steamroller Prods., announced last week that shooting has begun for at least 16 more episodes, airdates undecided.