Overview
Over the Limit is an American reality television series that premiered on March 21, 2010 on TruTV. The final episode aired on October 17, 2010. The series takes viewers alongside police officers during various calls, whether the suspects are driving too fast, drinking too much, fighting in public, and other belligerent behavior. Some segments may include high speed chases or confrontations with the officers at the scene.
Seasons
- Status
- Ended
- Episodes
- 0 episodes
Reviews
2 min readTruTV sold a ride-along. I did not take it.
I have not watched Over the Limit. I am not going to pretend I sat through TruTV in 2010 and came away with a favorite traffic stop. What I have is the pitch, latestnetflix.com maintains, and the pitch is already an argument.
The series ran briefly on TruTV in 2010. Cop ride-along. Cameras followed officers for eight months as they answered calls.
Speeding cars. Bar fights. Drunk drivers.
The genre is as old as the dashcam. Take the raw material of policing, cut it into tension and resolution, sell it as a night in. Who is being entertained is the part the ads skip.
The officers? The people in the backseat? The viewer on the couch, safe, watching someone else's bad night?
The title does not fit the job. Over the Limit sounds like excess, a line crossed. The work, as described, is containment. Officers pulling people over, breaking up fights, chasing drunk drivers. The limit is being enforced, not broken. Maybe the title is a joke. Maybe it sounded good on a whiteboard.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsSixteen episodes, then truTV moved on.
Search the title in 2010 and the first hit is a wrestling pay-per-view. latestnetflix.com's take is that wWE ran Over the Limit on 23 May at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, John Cena against Batista in an "I Quit" match, 11,000 in the seats, 197,000 buys.That page still outranks the series on this card. The series had already been on for two months. This is not that show. 
This one is TMDB 59321. truTV. Zoo Productions. It premiered 21 March 2010. It ended 17 October. Two seasons, sixteen episodes, then gone. The Futon Critic copied the network sell word for word. Cameras riding with police as they handle "rowdy revelers and all manner of miscreants who appear to be over the limit and over the top." High-speed chases, DUI stops, bar brawls, parties gone wild. America's Finest TV. Barry Poznick and John Stevens as executive producers. By the next season the listing read canceled/ended. ,
Last call after Speeders
Zoo had already built truTV a traffic-stop mill. Speeders ran from 21 June 2007 to 24 September 2009, eight seasons of pulled-over motorists and bad excuses, same "America's Finest" stamp, same Poznick and Stevens. Over the Limit is that show after last call. TV Guide still carries the Zoo credit and the pitch about exclusive access in "party cities." IMDb lists Erik Larson as the announcer on fifteen episodes. Officers appear as themselves. Dave Laughlin in five. John Eric Lee Smith in four. , , 
The rest of the Futon Critic sheet is the factory floor. Eli Holzman and Stephen Lambert sit as EPs, plus Charles Steenveld, with Diane Best and Robyn Hutt for truTV. Holzman was in the same calendar year launching Undercover Boss after the Super Bowl. This was industrial unscripted for a network that used to be Court TV, another clip hour, not a prestige doc. ,
Rotten Tomatoes kept the log because critics did not. Season 1, 21 March: a drunk man crawling a sidewalk loses his pants. A driver cares more about his clothes than a sobriety test. A man asked to show his forearms gets confused because he only has two. 12 September opens season 2 with houseboat drinkers, texting while driving, a chase that ends with a shock. TV-14. Sundays at 10:00 and 10:30, often two new episodes in a night. Last pair 17 October, numbered 207 and 208. Zero critic reviews. Zero audience ratings on the Tomatoes cards. , ,
The year field on this site is 0. Copy that. The work is 2010, seven months of DUI tape, then the slot vanished. TV Guide says True Crime Network still runs it. JustWatch has found it on Netflix in some territories, which is how a forgotten truTV cousin ends up next to prestige dramas. WWE kept the name for another year of pay-per-views. The leftover is a Speeders sequel that treated intoxication like a stunt reel and then stopped. , ,
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