Paul Blart: Mall Cop has inspired a new TV reality series.

TLC has ordered 12 episodes of Mall Cops: Mall Of America, a new show based on a special that aired last month on the network last month and pulled in 1.2 million viewers. The concept is reminiscent of this year’s hit movie, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, a comedy starring Kevin James as a pudgy, Segway-riding mall security guard who collars gang of crooks and wins the girl of his dreams.

The half-hour show will premierre early next year and will revolve around the security guards patrolling The Mall of America, the country’s largest in Bloomington, Minn. The 500-store mall includes a seven-acre theme park, a ginormous aquarium, and a wedding chapel.

“Everybody can relate to a shopping mall, and The Mall of America is its own little city,” says Nancy Daniels, TLC’s senior VP production and development.

“Policing the mall gives you interesting insights into people,” Daniels explains. “We have a handful of mall cops we’ll follow, and you won’t always see the same ones in every episode,” she says. “We follow them in their shifts — the calls they go on range from small petty items all the way up to life-and-death [situations].”