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...York Times, in a Sept. 20 article, quoted respected television writer-producer Steven Bochco (responsible for such integrated shows as "NYPD Blue") as saying, "It doesn't matter to me if you hire as an afterthought... It doesn't matter if you hire me for the wrong reasons. At least you've done...
...STEVEN BOCHCO, producer of such hit TV series as NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues, sued Fox late last week, alleging that he has been stiffed out of profits from the sale of NYPD Blue into reruns. Bochco, who will receive more than $80 million from the series, believes there should be more honey in that pot--an additional $15 million at least...
...suit, filed in L.A. Superior Court, Bochco says Fox sold the series to its fledgling FX cable network for a puny $400,000 per episode. (ER, by way of comparison, was sold into syndication to TNT for $1.2 million a show.) Not only did Fox fail to shop NYPD Blue to other prospective buyers, Bochco alleges, but the studio hid interest from other networks so it could supply its own cable channel on the cheap. This isn't the first such case brought against a media giant. Disney settled a similar suit from the producers of Home Improvement, and actor...
...office from 9 to 6 (he's got to get home to his wife Michelle Pfeiffer and their two kids) and writes all his scripts with a Paper Mate on a yellow legal pad, usually finishing a first draft in two days. "He trusts himself creatively," says Steven Bochco, Kelley's mentor when he worked as a writer for L.A. Law. "He has pure talent, he has craft, and he has clearly found a way to tap into his imagination that doesn't take a lot of time. When you add to that a tremendous work ethic, that...
...fact that it offers us the rare hope of seeing celebrated figures break through their wrapping. PI is at its best when panelists become slightly unhinged, when they start behaving like Ricki Lake guests in higher tax brackets, as Chevy Chase recently did when he attacked producer Steven Bochco and ranted, quite seriously, that people should be reading Thomas Hardy instead of watching...