A&E suddenly over-saturating their schedule with old Live PD Content - What happens next?
Since the settlement of the lawsuit, I'm noticing that A&E is starting to overly saturate their schedule with reruns of old Live PD content. Of course, a few weeks ago, A&E started to air, on Wednesday nights, never-before-seen episodes of PD Cam that they had in the bag since 2020, combined with reruns of older PD Cam episodes.
Now, at this point, the schedule has become even more saturated with old Live PD content, as Sundays are now nonstop marathons of PD Cam, followed by Live PD: Police Patrol, and Mondays are now nonstop marathons of all Live PD: Police Patrol.
Looks like this schedule continues in this fashion next week as well, per the A&E website:
So that's 3 out of 7 nights each week that are now devoted to the Live PD franchise. To me, this doesn't seem like a happy accident. It seems to me like they're trying to gauge interest in a further reboot of the franchise. I have no idea if the terms of the lawsuit settlement allows for them to make a full identical live show to compete directly with OPL, but if they're allowed to do it, I'm wondering if that's the next step that will follow.