The True Story was a TV pilot about a surgical intern and her brother, a rookie cop, getting on with their life, now that their father was in jail for killing their mother when they were young children.
McGann (main character)

- 1999 • Drama
- UPN
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for 1 episode
– Pilot - Gallery
The True Story was to be produced by Tom Fontana and shown on UPN for the 1999⁄2000 season. However for reasons unknown, it was reworked into a show named The Beat became about young, male, cops, one of whom was the son of a man who’d killed his wife 25 years ago. The Beat aired only 6 episodes and was marked as being one of the more foul-mouthed shows on the air.