ABC patrolling Border

The US Department of Homeland Security deals with touchy situations, and it's imperative for it to keep a certain level of privacy and top-secretness. So it makes total sense that it will be working with ABC to film a reality show all about its goings-on.

ABC has ordered 11 hours of Border Security USA, an unscripted show that details the country's efforts to police and patrol the country's borders, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Opening its borders to ideas from other countries, ABC is basing Border Security USA on the Australian show Border Security: Australia's Front Line. In addition to Homeland Security, the show will be working with the Coast Guard, Secret Service, Customs, and other high-security organizations that we can't tell you about, otherwise we'd have to kill you. [Editor's note: That was a joke, and a bad one at that.]

The show will seem similar to another program that helped usher in reality television--Fox's long-running Cops. Every episode is expected to jump between almost a dozen stories across the country and neighboring areas, each showing part of the process that helps keep "bad guys" out.

"[Homeland Security wants] people to know how diligent they are," producer Arnold Shapiro told The Hollywood Reporter. "You hear about every problem that the Department of Homeland Security is having; you never hear about what they're doing that's good."

ABC has not yet set a premiere date for the series.