{"id":11839,"date":"2015-07-30T07:38:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T12:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=11839"},"modified":"2015-07-30T07:38:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T12:38:51","slug":"postal-themed-tv-drama-to-debut-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/07\/30\/postal-themed-tv-drama-to-debut-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal-themed TV drama to debut this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title-full\">\u2018The Inspectors\u2019<\/h1>\n<div class=\"link-subhead-full\"><strong>Postal-themed TV drama to debut this fall<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><span class=\"entry-date\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2015-07-29T10:10:16+00:00\">USPS News link 7\/29\/15<\/time><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content full\">\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail\"><a title=\"A video monitor shows Jessica Lundy, star of \u201cThe Inspectors.\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/inspection_service_tv_largestory.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/inspection_service_tv_largestory.jpg\" alt=\"Inspection Service TV story\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\">A video monitor shows Jessica Lundy, star of \u201cThe Inspectors.\u201d<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Postal Inspection Service, one of the nation\u2019s oldest law enforcement agencies, is getting its own television show.<\/p>\n<p>CBS will air \u201cThe Inspectors\u201d Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., beginning Oct. 3. The half-hour scripted drama is geared toward a general audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Inspectors\u2019 is a story that allows us to have a vessel to teach the American public about \u2026 what an Inspector does day in and day out,\u201d said Dave Morgan, the show\u2019s creator.<\/p>\n<p>The series stars Jessica Lundy as Postal Inspector Amanda Wainwright, who leads a team that focuses on consumer fraud and other postal crimes. Wainwright\u2019s teenage son, Preston (Brett Green), works as an intern at the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/2015\/02\/18\/fab-lab\/\">forensic crime lab<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so important for us to be accurate and to \u2026 educate the public on what it is they\u2019re doing, which is a vital service to all of us,\u201d said Lundy.<\/p>\n<p>Each episode will conclude with a crime-prevention message from Chief Postal Inspector Guy Cottrell, delivered in the style of Efrem Zimbalist Jr. during the 1960s series \u201cThe F.B.I.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Inspectors\u201d grew out of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2012\/09sep\/news13s1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Consumer Alert News Network<\/a><\/em>, a series of Postal Inspection Service consumer-awareness TV spots that began in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Inspectors\u2019 Postal-themed TV drama to debut this fall USPS News link 7\/29\/15 A video monitor shows Jessica Lundy, star of \u201cThe Inspectors.\u201d The Postal Inspection Service, one of the nation\u2019s oldest law enforcement agencies, is getting its own television show. CBS will air \u201cThe Inspectors\u201d Saturdays at 10:30 a.m., beginning Oct. 3. 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