Cuse created and executive produced the CBS series "Martial Law," starring Arsenio Hall and Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, one of martial arts legend Jackie Chan's closest friends and collaborators. Cuse adapted the world of Hong Kong cinema to American television in a story about a Shanghai cop who comes to the LAPD on an exchange program. A team of eight top Chinese stuntmen and coordinators from Hong Kong was hired. Stanley Tong, who had directed many of Jackie Chan's biggest Hong Kong features, directed the pilot. Sammo Hung became the first Chinese actor to star as the lead in an American TV series. Cuse was running both "Martial Law" and "Nash Bridges" simultaneously. The workload became creatively and physically difficult, which led to him leaving "Martial Law", and focus exclusively on "Nash Bridges". Another factor, Cuse said, were creative differences with Sammo Hung about the future direction of "Martial Law".