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BEFORE THERE was 24, there was One. In 1995-'96, Steven Bochco's Murder One took a full season to tell a single story: the trial of a famous actor (Jason Gedrick) for the murder of a 15-year-old girl. The experiment was bracing, intense and a ratings failure. Maybe, in the autumn of O.J. Simpson's acquittal, it was hard to sell a celebrity murder story in which the high-priced defense team, headed by no-nonsense Ted Hoffman (Daniel Benzali), was more sympathetic than police and prosecutors. Maybe audiences weren't ready for a serial format...
...requiring this, I think - the Kennedy assassination playing a major role. "Boomtown," a cop show set in LA -sorry, according to the trailer, "the phrase 'cop show' doesn't apply" - is an enigma so far. It has a strong cast (Donnie Wahlberg from "Band of Brothers," Mykelti Williamson, Jason Gedrick), but despite its claims of a novel approach to storytelling, the clips played pretty much like a new "Law and Order" spinoff...
...upfronts, but, together with the whispers about the other networks' upcoming schedules, we're already starting to see trends. More nostalgia. More "family," however loosely defined. More stars of failed shows getting second, third, or fourth chances: today alone, Paula Marshall of "Snoops" and "Cupid"; Farina of "Buddy Faro"; Gedrick of "EZ Streets," Falcone" and "The Beast"; Mark Feuerstein of "Conrad Bloom." But perhaps the most disturbing trend of all, should it hold up throughout the week: at the NBC after-party, the little chicken kebabs were conspicuously absent...
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