A&E gangs up on L.A. sheriffs

October 19, 2007 It's being produced by 44 Blue Prods., with company president and co-owner Rasha Drachkovitch serving as executive producer with actor-producer Shane Conrad, son of actor Robert Conrad. Robert Sharenow, who is executive producing for A&E with Laura Fleury, said the project offers "unprecedented access" to the LASD. Conrad had been trying to secure access as early as spring 2006, around the time that producer Scott Sternberg also was trying to get permission to shoot the L.A. Sheriff's Academy for his own TV project; Conrad's original project was known as "The Assignment," designed to follow the daily activities of detectives and officers.

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