It’s a premise well suited for a potential third Canadian cop drama from CTV and CBS.

CTV confirms it is on board with CBS to co-develop a procedural cop drama from White Pines Pictures set in cross-border Niagara Falls.

The joint script development deal follows CBS in August agreeing to finance script development for the Canadian project after a Los Angeles pitch (Playback, August 8).

CBS and CTV produced two earlier Canadian cop dramas, Flashpoint and The Bridge.

Canadian actors Mark Wilson and Patrick McKenna, who performed in another cross-border drama for White Pines Pictures, The Border for the CBC, brought the idea for the potential CBS/CTV police drama to White Pines principal Peter Raymont.

The episodic drama features two younger cops looking to climb the ladder in a Niagara Falls police station battling two older cops that cling to the top rung as their unit pursues the bad guys in the shadows of one of the seven wonders of the world.

Wilson and McKenna are joining showrunner David Barlow in coming up with a script, which potentially could go to pilot with CBS and CTV.

CBS this week received a treatment for the proposed Canadian cop drama, as work on the first draft continues.

Barlow and Raymont will also executive produce the project.