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...Fontana and Barry Levinson's Homicide was humanities, a character-driven mix of philosophy, religion and Dostoyevsky. Unsurprisingly, then, it was the first department to lose its budget, getting axed at nbc last spring. Now writer-creator Fontana says he and Levinson intend The Beat (UPN, debuts March 21, 9 p.m. E.T.) to delve even deeper into the inner lives of cops. "I'm less interested in the cases than in the effects of them on these guys," he says...
...trick to convey its dual focus: the personal-life scenes are shot on film, police scenes on digital video. The digital scenes are jarring (part Blair Witch Project, part 1981-era Duran Duran video), but Levinson says they mimic the "voyeuristic kind of approach" of shows like Cops. Says Fontana: "You want [channel surfers] to stop and say, 'What the hell is that?'" That might also describe a typical Homicide fan's reaction to UPN mates like WWF Smackdown!, but entertainment president Tom Nunan says the show is a good match for UPN: "We do things a little differently...
...Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama E. Ewusi-Mensah Alice H.S. Farmer David A. Fahrenthold Lilian V. Faulhaber Sameera Fazili John Fedele David P. Feliciano Michael B. Fertik Summer L. Finell Luke Fischbeck Allison M. FitzGerald Kara E. Flavin Ross J. Fleischman Leah C. Fletcher Elizabeth J. Fontana Alysson R. Ford David W. Foster Geoffrey A. Fowler Julia A. Fowler Jason L. Freidenfelds Brian R. Friedman Virginia S. Fuller David J. Fusco Raefer C. Gabriel Julio V. Gambuto Lauren R. Garsten John W. Geary Kata Gellen Michael T. Giampaolo Peter A. Gilchrist Ghia E. Godfree Jonathan I. Goldberg...
...directing; it's usually the writing that's to blame. But even if the texture of this drama weren't so reminiscent of an '80s made-for-TV movie, its story and characters still wouldn't live up to the expectations that producers Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana (Homicide, Oz) place on them. Perhaps it's easier to dramatize the lives of detectives and prisoners than the subject here--the lives of pro-basketball players. The show's philandering athletes and slimy agents just can't top a good Latrell Sprewell coach choking...
CALIFORNIA 500 Fontana, Calif...