Chevy Chase actually has a good point, but being Chevy Chase he craps all over himself making it. Bochco did a law show that actually dealt well with real legal issues, but Mariel Hemingway couldn't play a convincing lawyer. Chevy starts in around 16 minutes.
https://youtu.be/WOdBo80vBh8 Not sent from an iPhone On Apr 1, 2018, 5:39 PM, at 5:39 PM, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: >Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue set standards other shows had to >struggle >to meet. Murder One was ahead of its time in terms of an evening drama >with >a season-long story arc, and Brooklyn South was ahead of its time in >terms >of how gritty a series could be. Of course one has to mention his part >in >creating the universe in which Peter Falk could wear a trenchcoat in LA >and >solve homicides. Even his flops were memorable in their badness (Cop >Rock & >Public Morals... I liked Public Morals). His later years, he seemed to >have >shrunken into the formula of so many cop and lawyer shows, often >stating in >interviews that broadcast TV would not dare attempt something >groundbreaking like NYPD Blue in 2018. > >I was in college when NYPD Blue premiered and one of my close friends >was a >conservative guy who had read all the publicity surrounding the show's >violence and sex and language, and he was ready to write the network >and >advertisers to complain. I urged him to wait until the show was >actually on >the air, and invited him over to watch it. And that's what he did, and >every Tuesday that year he'd come over to watch it, because he was >hooked. > >Also worth noting the episode of Politically Correct when Chevy Chase >lost >it at Bochco, blaming his TV shows for the downfall of western >civilization. It was unfair of Chase, and Bochco held it together for a >long time before fighting back... regardless, it made for good TV. And >Bochco liked good TV. > >On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Made a lot of good TV. >> >> Link >> ><https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > >-- >Kevin M. (RPCV) > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to [email protected]. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
