EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video will play Good Cop/Bad Cop. The Amazon streamer has taken the comedic crime procedural for the U.S. where it is already available on The CW broadcast network and Roku. All eight episodes from Season 1 launch on Prime Video on July 11.
Amid talk of a sophomore run, the team behind the show hopes the additional exposure will put wind in its sails for a second season order.
Luke Cook stars in Good Cop/Bad Cop, which was created by John Quaintance and is produced by former NBCU exec Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack. The trio were on hand recently at the Monte-Carlo TV Festival to talk about the series, which, outside the U.S., is for Australian streamer Stan.
Deadline asked the team whether there is a second season coming and Quaintance, producer of shows including Will & Grace, said. “We’re still trying to make that happen.”
Good Cop/Bad Cop executive producer Wachtel talked about the Prime Video deal, which at that point was still in the works but has now been finalized. “When Roku came on board [we said]: ‘Oh, good, now we have two places to see the show.’ With Amazon, now we have three.”
Good Cop/Bad Cop stars Gossip Girls alum Leighton Meester and Australian actor Cook (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina). Cook and Meester play a brother-sister detective team in a small Pacific Northwest police force in the show.
Future Shack produces the series alongside Jungle Entertainment. With Season 2 being discussed, domestic and global sales are part of the financing equation. ITV Studios is across international distribution and Paramount Global Content Distribution the U.S.
At Monte-Carlo, Wachtel said: “Our hope is that somewhere in the mix of people who have already been financing the show, Roku etc., or even a new person who comes in, [we will get to] critical mass.”
Quaintance talked about how his show has been over a decade in-the-making. Although there were numerous partners, he said the team delivered the show they wanted.
“We’ve made a show that was idiosyncratic and without a lot of creative interference and a lot of network testing with dials and algorithms and all that. So, you can still do it, it’s just you need to have seven minutes of credits beforehand listing all of the executive producers.”
