While The Force is booming with cops on the beat, Seven is wasting no time with a second season of Highway Patrol. It began filming in Melbourne yesterday.
The factual follows the Victorian Police Traffic Units as they perform road safety duties before drunken drivers, drug dealers and speeding hoons. Mostly the hoons.
The show has been a solid performer for Seven since its debut in September.
Seven Network Head of Factual Programming Dan Meenan said: “Highway Patrol has exceeded our expectations. This show is driven by some very patient and able officers who illustrate how the police confront all different types of situations on our roads. We expect even bigger and better stories for the second series.”
Vicki Vassilopoulos, Manager, Film & Television Office Victoria Police said; “We are extremely pleased and equally excited to be running with another series of Highway Patrol, and what this means for Victoria Police.
“The show is an opportunity for us to show the community what Traffic Management policing is really all about. It also allows for some strong road safety messages that I’m sure drivers will take on board. Our members do some really great work and we are all looking forward to an equally successful series two of Highway Patrol which will showcase their efforts”.
It will air in 2010.
Highway Patrol is a great show i love it, it would be great if it went longer.
I missed most of the first serise of the show last year, but what i did see i loved it.
I would have to say my favourite officer is “Ivan”, he’s great to watch.
I think the show should come out on dvd, that would be great.
Can anyone tell me if it’s going to come out on dvd?
My friends and I would get together every Wednesday night to watch Highway Patrol. We miss the show.. Bring it back soon…
Highway patrol is unreall I was upset to see it finished I would love to see more of Highway Patrol next year but I would love to go for an hour.
The police on the show are unreall my favourite police officer is wendy.
OMG I’ve seen them today in my area Broadmeadows pulling people over on Pascoe vale Road hahaha
Never thought i’d say this but HP, TF, & BS are great! I miss them for weeks but when I catch them i’m entertained. Destroyed in Seconds on the other hand is utta crap. I have never liked clip shows and Grant Denyer was a great weather presenter but that was about it.
You have to wonder why Channel 10 has not made a local version of COPS.
@Ian: I have a full wit, and I’m not a bogan, and I watch this show, so I guess you’re misenterpreting the show’s audience demographic.
@bec: I beg to differ, I don’t feel her accent is so ocker that people from other english-speaking countries would have trouble understanding her. It’s more like Julia gillard’s accent, which is softer and easy to understand.
God no!!!!!!!!
These shows are cheap and nasty and only bogan half-wits watch them.
Megan makes the show! She deserves a Logie!
I don’t mind this show, but whoever writes the summaries at the end of each story needs to get their act together! Their spelling and grammar is atrocious! Mixing up the spellings for ‘licence’, omitting apostrophes and adding them in where they shouldn’t be, and using the American spelling for ‘behaviour’ … I’m a spelling and grammar nazi from way back, and it just irks me that dozens of people, I assume, would have seen these errors and either haven’t noticed them or haven’t been bothered to change them!
The reason this show works so well is the rising levels of idiocy of the hapless crims and the personalities of the coppers featured – particularly Megan DeWinn. She is hands down the funniest person on Australian television right now. She is a superstar.
It’s just unfortunate that she ruins the potential for selling this show to other countries, because no one overseas would be able to understand her ocker-extreme accent!
As with the NZ Motorway Patrol, really enjoying Highway Patrol. Good to hear another season is on the way.
I actually love this show. The only thing I would change about it, The Force and Border Security, I’d change the style to COPS. One story, commercial break, next story commercial break and so on. Not a big fan of jumping around. I know it keeps you watching, but I’m going to watch for the full 30 minutes anyway, because just after one idiot has left the screen, another one is sure to be around the corner!
I absolutely love this show. It was a surprise hit for me, wasn’t initially interested but thought I’d tape, and when I watched that first episode I was hooked.
Seven are really starting to recycle their factuals; Highway Patrol is a near clone of The Force.