Lockup

One of the longest-running reality series, MSNBC’s Lockup, has been cancelled, though it will still air one more season starting Saturday night.

The choices were prisons, prostitutes, or police. In 2000, a young cable news network, MSNBC, had time to fill on its weekend schedule, and it wanted something in “the 3P space,” as a long-time reality show producer told me. What Rasha Drachkovitch and 44 Blue Productions delivered was a show that went into prisons and …