While the rest of us are enjoying the action and car chases, the real cops are likely spotting all the flaws created by the pretend cops.

“That’s not how it would really happen,” they cry. “No cop would ever say something like that.”

Shows set in the world of newspapers are nowhere near as popular as cop shows but, as a journalist I feel the same way when I watch one of them.

Hell, seeing a newspaper front page in a movie or TV show is enough to put me on edge.

Whatever the subject of the show is will invariably be on the front page, even though the story really isn’t important enough to warrant it.

And because the viewer can’t actually read the story, the headline will be several sentences long and spell out every important point.

READ MORE: New UOW degree could shock UOW academics

Likely accompanied by an absolutely terrible photo no real paper would dare place on the front page.

But I digress. I’m here to talk about the British series Press, which has just finished airing on BBC First but is surely available to stream.

It’s a six-part series about two rival newspapers – one upmarket and one lowbrow – focusing on journalist Holly who goes from the former to the latter and then back again.

She manages to do this remarkably easily; literally quitting one paper and walking across the road back to the other one, where she gets her old job back without a sweat.

Once back, she gets her editor all excited about a new story but at the last minute, tells her “oh, I decided not to write it”. And, incredibly, her editor – who was expecting the story earlier that episode – just says “okay”.

No way does this happen. Ever. If you don't file a story you’d better have a damn good reason.

Both newsrooms are full of reporters and there’s not an empty desk to be seen – which is so very far from reality.

Another character in the show, a young, ambitious journalist who tells an intern “oh, I’ve had a few front pages” – no real journalist ever talks like that.

Those not in the business might enjoy this – all I could see were the inaccuracies.