On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:37 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I liked Prime Suspect, but I am wondering what a contemporary version of > > that show can possibly have in common with the original. My memory is > that > > the main context for PS was the challenges facing a competent, complex > woman > > working her way up in a male dominated profession. Not to say that women > no > > longer face any discriminatory attitudes in police work, but building a > show > > around that premise is going to seem a bit dated, isn't it? And if that > is > > not the major theme of the show, then won't it just be a crime show > > featuring a tough, talented and complex female detective? I like crime > > shows, and will no doubt watch it, but I am not sure I see even a tenuous > > connection to the original. > > If David E Kelley produces it, the female cop is guaranteed to walk in > the rain and cry. > > Didn't "Cagney and Lacey" more or less write the book on female cops > in the US, or am I missing some aspect of "Prime Suspect" that is > hitherto unexplored on the American small screen? > Of course it is not that we don't need any more female cop shows - it is that we now have lots of female cops and detectives on television, so many that it hardly seems necessary or even possible to build a show around the premise of "hey, this is a show about a female cop!". Fox just cancelled a good crime show build around the idea of a woman being the top cop in a major American city (Chicago Code). The main L&O franchise has had its featured detective squad run by a woman for more than a decade, the most popular crime shows on cable feature women law enforcement officers, both in supervisory and street roles, and every edgy and wannabe edgy cop show for the last 15 years has included a couple of female detectives and beat cops. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
