Word: milch
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...Western set in 1876 with the downer title Deadwood may not sound like a promising addition to HBO's spring 2004 lineup. But it has gold diggers, prostitutes, gunslingers and criminals and is being created by David Milch of NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues. Plus, Milch deadpans, "it's in color...
Deadwood was the epicenter of a gold rush in what is now South Dakota. Just one small problem: the land had previously been "given" to the Indians. "Custer was sent in to strong-arm the Indians, and we all know how that turned out," says Milch. The story begins two weeks after Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn and features fictional characters like a marshal turned merchant played by Timothy Olyphant (Gone in Sixty Seconds) as well as historical figures like "Wild Bill" Hickok (Keith Carradine...
...Milch, the times felt right for the story. "In the aftermath of 9/11, people are so guarded emotionally, savaged by what they experienced through TV," he says. When fiction can't possibly trump the headlines, taking viewers out of a contemporary setting can help them check their disbelief at the door. Don't expect chaste, old-fashioned behavior, though; there's already buzz about the skin, violence and language. "I'm just trying to get that world right," says Milch, who helped bring nudity to prime time in NYPD Blue. "When a man was killed in Deadwood...
...fronts: one with a shadowy enemy who is constantly trying to exploit our weaknesses, and another with ourselves. In that battle, we face complacency, bureaucracy and our own reluctance to change. Like the war on terrorism itself, this battle requires constant vigilance. --Reported by Melissa August, Massimo Calabresi, Adam Milch, Viveca Novak and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...year. And, business-model differences or no, a Sopranos viewer is still two fewer eyeballs for those new-car ads. "[The networks] are afraid to endorse controversial and innovative programming because they're afraid they'll lose the mainstream, but they're losing much of it anyway," says David Milch, who co-created NYPD Blue for ABC and is now developing a western for HBO. "The truth is, the public--the mainstream--will respond to that programming...