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Four of the new fall shows have reached the Top 20. Three were expected: Grace Under Fire, Frasier and Dave's World, all of which follow established hits. The biggest surprise is the controversial NYPD Blue, which got no schedule help and is tied for 11th...
...home around prostitutes.") Rarely has TV portrayed casual racial stereotyping with as much humor or human understanding. Cop-show stereotypes come in for even more satire. The police in this California backwater are a far cry from the cool, macho professionals who have populated TV dramas from Kojak to NYPD Blue. Mostly they are wimpy, neurotic, overemotional misfits, more obsessed with interpersonal trivia than the demands of police work. Not that the police work is very demanding. The morning roll call in Bakersfield P.D. is like Hill Street Blues on happy juice: "We've got two officers down and another...
...ambition, hubris and nostalgia still inspire many of the most talented American filmmakers to try the form. Steven Bochco, after creating the hit series L.A. Law but before creating the hit series NYPD Blue, created the very expensive flop series Cop Rock, a weekly musical about police. "It was the most fun I've ever had in television," says Bochco, whose father was a Broadway pit musician. The audience regarded Cop Rock as a curious taste not worth acquiring -- "I think people sitting at home alone," Bochco figures now, "were embarrassed" -- and ABC canceled it quickly. James Brooks, the director...
...important cause of real violence in America are legion, and fairly obvious. Somali children gleefully fire grenades at clan rivals, while Bosnians and Serbs rape and kill each other, all without encouragement from television. Homo homini lupus--"man is a wolf to man"--was Plautus' lament long before NYPD Blue...
Vindicated TV auteur's NYPD Blue fared well -- where it aired...