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The Academy(TV show/series, 2007-2009)

1h per episode | Genre: Documentary

Scripted Reality in 3 seasons with 31 episodes

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The Academy is a reality television series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy as they go through an 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The program premiered in May 2007 on Fox Reality Channel with class 355. As of fall 2007, the series is also aired on MyNetworkTV. There were 111 recruits to start out and 24 were separated. Separations occur when recruits fail make-up exams, simply decide to resign due to injury or by personal choice, or when the instructors feel the recruit shouldn't continue with training. The lead drill instructor was Deputy Miley a.k.a. "The Ramrod". Class 355 was mostly made of recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, but there were recruits for other agencies as well such as the Los Angeles Port Police, Torrance Police Department, Inglewood Police Department, Redondo Beach Police Department, and the Pomona Police Department. The finale for the first season was on Thursday, August 2, 2007. Fox Reality started taping the second season of the show in early November 2007 at the STARS Center, the Los Angeles County Sheriff academy. The second-season premiere aired on May 24, 2008, and the second-season finale aired on Jul... ()
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The Academy is a reality television series that provides a behind-the-scenes look at police recruits of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Academy as they go through an 18-week training course to become deputies of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The program premiered in May 2007 on Fox Reality Channel with class 355. As of fall 2007, the series is also aired on MyNetworkTV. There were 111 recruits to start out and 24 were separated. Separations occur when recruits fail make-up exams, simply decide to resign due to injury or by personal choice, or when the instructors feel the recruit shouldn't continue with training. The lead drill instructor was Deputy Miley a.k.a. "The Ramrod". Class 355 was mostly made of recruits for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, but there were recruits for other agencies as well such as the Los Angeles Port Police, Torrance Police Department, Inglewood Police Department, Redondo Beach Police Department, and the Pomona Police Department. The finale for the first season was on Thursday, August 2, 2007. Fox Reality started taping the second season of the show in early November 2007 at the STARS Center, the Los Angeles County Sheriff academy. The second season premiere aired on May 24, 2008, and the second season finale aired on July 26, 2008. The third season of The Academy, which premiered on October 24, 2009 provides a behind-the-scenes look at recruits of the Orange County Fire Authority, California.

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The Academy Seasons and Episodes

10/24/2009(us) season 3 - 10 episodes
#1 | 10/24/2009It Starts Today
#2 | 10/31/2009Ears Back, Hair on Fire
#3 | 11/07/2009Attention To Detail
#4 | 11/14/2009The Mid-term
#5 | 11/21/2009The Heat Turns Up
#6 | 11/28/2009Fire Ground Pace
#7 | 12/05/2009Day in the Life
#8 | 12/12/2009Mission: De-con
#9 | 12/19/2009It's Do or Die
#10 | 12/26/2009Graduation Day
05/24/2008(us) season 2 - 10 episodes
05/24/2007(us) season 1 - 11 episodes

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 3 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 05/24/2007
Last episode released on: 12/26/2009
Keywords: documentary

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