Canadian police drama Flashpoint is set to premiere on CBS on July 11, simultaneously with its opening on its parent network CTV, Canada's largest privately owned English language broadcast network. It was picked up for U.S. broadcast during the writers' strike.
Flashpoint stars Amy Jo Johnson (Felicity) and Enrico Colontoni (Veronica Mars, Just Shoot Me). It centers around the elite Canadian metropolitan police force called the Strategic Response Unit, patterned after Toronto's SWAT-like Emergency Task Force. The unit is tasked to perform highly sensitive scenarios, such as hostage crises, gangs, bomb threats, and, on more than one occasion reportedly, talking down suicidal teens. As such, members of the highly-skilled technical team are also trained in negotiating, profiling, and getting inside the suspect or victims' head to ultimately save lives.