Editing Cop Rock (section)

== Reception ==
On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the series holds an approval rating of 53% based on 17 reviews, with an average rating of 5.33/10. The website's critical consensus states, "''Cop Rock''{{'}}s ambition to innovate the police procedural is admirable, but the contrast of grit and glam proves too jarring with unmemorable music throwing the series' more promising dramatic beats askew."<ref>{{cite Rotten Tomatoes|title=Cop Rock|id=cop_rock|type=tv|season=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405153526/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/cop_rock/s01|archive-date=April 5, 2021|url-status=live|access-date=October 17, 2021}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], it has a weighted average score of 61 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite Metacritic|title=Cop Rock|id=cop-rock|type=tv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210405153529/https://www.metacritic.com/tv/cop-rock|archive-date=April 5, 2021|url-status=live|access-date=October 17, 2021}}</ref>

The show was a critical and commercial failure and was canceled by ABC after 11 episodes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE7DA1E3BF930A25752C1A966958260|title=ABC Cancels 'Cop Rock' |date=November 13, 1990|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref> The combination of a fusion of musical performances with serious police drama and dark humor with its high-powered production talent, made it infamous as one of the biggest television failures of the 1990s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3D61338F935A35752C1A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|title=A Series Makes the Starting Gate|last=Weinraub|first=Bernard|date=November 11, 1991|work=The New York Times|access-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/2004/06/04/flops-101-lessons-biz/|title=Flops 101: Lessons From The Biz|last=Tucker|first=Ken|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=June 4, 2004|access-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref> ''[[TV Guide Magazine]]'' ranked it #8 on its List of the 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time list in 2002<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cosgrove-Mather|first1=Bootie|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-worst-tv-shows-ever/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402002745/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-worst-tv-shows-ever/|title=The Worst TV Shows Ever|date=July 12, 2002|work=[[CBS News]]|access-date=August 28, 2008|archive-date=April 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> and dubbed it "the single most bizarre TV musical of all time".<ref>{{cite web|title=TV Musicals: The Highs and Lows|url=http://www.tvguide.com/galleries/favorite-tv-musicals-1060019/photo/ed3ebea8-f8b7-4281-ad91-49e4d34b1cbf/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120043101/https://www.tvguide.com/galleries/favorite-tv-musicals-1060019/5/|work=[[TV Guide]]|access-date=April 13, 2013|archive-date=January 20, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Despite an overwhelmingly negative reception<ref>Recent examples include a [https://web.archive.org/web/20091021090118/http://geocities.com/badtelevision/coprock.html 2009 review on the site Bad TV Shows] and a  [https://web.archive.org/web/20040604151640/http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/coprock.htm 2004 review on the site Television Heaven].</ref> and short run, the series has been rebroadcast in later years, with [[VH1]] and [[A&E Network]] airing it on separate occasions later in the 1990s, and [[Trio (TV network)|Trio]] in the 2000s.