I love the show. I know what the real Memphis is like...spent the longest 8 months of my life there and prayed God would get me out alive. I saw one episode of Police Women of Memphis and was sickened to realize these freaks are the city's "finest"...and that Memphis apparently doesn't mind the rest of the country knowing it.

But the show is purely entertainment to me. I like the quirky characters & the storylines. Dozens of shows are supposedly based in cities to which there's no similarity in real life. I've lived in Houston, Miami, Chicago, Dallas... and I've seen shows set in every one of those cities that did not reflect the real city. You think the REAL Miami is like what you see on CSI: Miami...?

Mike is right -- Memphis Beat isn't a reality show, it's light drama, purely fictional and very entertaining IMO. I doubt it will succeed, too quirky I think, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

I like the show. I have been in Memphis a lot. It isn't a reality show - IT IS ENTERTAINMENT. Get over it!

It's kinda obvious to me that the producers, etc. spent little time researching Memphis before making this show, other than the surface elements such as Blues and food. Not saying it's bad, but did they even bother to watch First 48?

The Memphis police department is not backwater, they don't use computers straight out of 1990, and they don't all have southern drawls so thick you have to strain to understand what they're saying. The people of Memphis are funny, educated, eccentric...lots of fodder for a show, but let's get a little more realistic and a little less stereotypical, a little less Hollywood, please. I had hopes for this show, but so far I'm a little annoyed. I think the producers thought they were somewhere in the backwoods of Mississippi or Louisiana, not a metro area such as Memphis.

Love the music and the older cars. Show is good enough for me. I don't like soap operas. Just guns and smash the roses. I'm just a old salty sailor and otr trucker. Concealed carry guns owners and politically incorrect. Westerns and cops shows. Ice road truckers too. Like Liza ... She okay in my book. I'm sick of proggressive femenists. I
like gals like Sarah Palin and Merchell Beckman.

Ho Hum another lame police show with the typical characters that has been done over and over and over again. The worst thin it's not even filmed in Memphis.... The trailers were not anything that grabbed you to look forward to the pilot... I give it under 24 episodes

As a Memphian, I dread seeing this show. The reality of Memphis is, unfortunately, best represented by "The Police Women of Memphis" and "The First 48", not by down-home, cheesy dialogue and stereotyping. It's more offensive to me than Marc Cohn's horrendous "Walking in Memphis".
This show might have grabbed me if it were based in Jackson, MS or Shreveport, LA and not Memphis. The reality is Memphis is too dangerous to film a series based on/in it. Take for instance the recent "The Blind Side", also a movie based heavily on, but not in, Memphis.

Saying that the city is a major player in the cast is ridiculous - this show is what people think Memphis is, not the consistent top 5 homicide city in the country that it is. We do not live in a quaint bluesy metropolis driven by music and soul; we live in one of the most dangerous large cities in the country, but there is something there under the surface that we love.

Based on the sneak previews, this show is merely Memphis performed in blackface; a soft-shoe tap of a procedural that does more to emphasize the stereotypes than to relate the reality. But that said, I'm sure everyone outside the city will love it simply because Earl Hickey, "The Blind Side" and "In the Heat of the Night" had a disgusting, greasy threesome and spawned this trash.

more flops and shows for people with an IQ of 2.