Television A&E renews "Steven Seagal: Lawman"

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Steven Seagal's A&E reality show is getting a sequel.

The network has renewed "Steven Seagal: Lawman" for a second season. A&E is picking up 16 episodes of the docudrama, three more than the first-season order.

Seagal and his Sheriffs Department colleagues again will protect the people of New Orleans, but this time the production filmed during Mardi Gras.

"It presents some unique challenges to the police force and Seagal; there's such a high volume of people you never quite know what you're going to get," said Robert Sharenow, one of the executive producers.

Season 1 of "Lawman" was a success for the network, averaging 2.1 million viewers and 1.3 million adults 18-49, making it A&E's best freshman performance by an original series in total viewers.

The Zen-preaching, martial-arts boasting Seagal distinguished the show from the usual police procedural, with some viewers perceiving it as camp. Sharenow, however, said the producers play it straight.

"The show is very straightforward when they're intervening during crimes -- there's no nudging wink at the audience," he said. "Steven's just got this funny, dry sense of humor."

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Steven Seagal busts suspected cock fight – in a tank

March 24, 2011, 3:01 pm Yahoo!Xtra Entertainment Yahoo!Xtra
The home of an Arizona man suspected of staging cockfights was raided on Monday by sheriffs, a SWAT team, a bomb-disposal unit and Steven Seagal in a tank.







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                  • Seeming to believe that real life should contain as excessive displays of force as in his movies, Steven Seagal rolled up to a police raid in an armoured tank.
                    The actor accompanied Arizona sheriffs and dozens of SWAT members, complete with bomb-disposal robot - for a raid on the home of a man suspected of staging cockfights.
                    Never one to pull his punches, Seagal shrugged off allegations of putting on a show for the tv crews accompanying him telling a local radio station, "Animal cruelty is one of my pet peeves."
                    The suspect's attorney said the operation was an expensive, excessive show of force made for the benefit of the reality series ‘Steven Seagal Lawman’.
                    Sheriff Joe Arpaio dismissed the suggestion that the raid was played up for TV cameras.
 
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