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...four of them, TV's brash experimenter has been thrashing mostly in dry creek beds. The creator of Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law tried a musical police show (Cop Rock), an "adult" cartoon (Capitol Critters) and a sexy law show (Civil Wars). Now, with his new ABC series, NYPD Blue, Bochco is back where he is most comfortable: chronicling the dark, turbulent world of big-city law enforcement. And fighting a raging current...
...having on young viewers, the networks have vowed to scrub their houses even cleaner. The label itself may turn out to be sparingly used. Network officials say few, if any, of their regular series will be so branded; only Steven Bochco's racy new cop show for ABC, NYPD Blue, has been singled out as likely to get a weekly warning. In general, the label will be applied on a case-by- case basis to certain TV movies and individual episodes of regular series...
...program drawing the most scrutiny is NYPD Blue; it is an admitted effort by Bochco, creator of Hill Street Blues, to do network TV's first R-rated series. The pilot episode contains a steamy sex scene with rear nudity, relatively rough language ("You pissy little bitch"), and some strong violence. In the face of affiliate discomfort -- roughly a third of ABC station executives polled at a recent network meeting said they might not run the show -- Bochco said he would consider making some changes: "I'm trying to be sensitive to the concerns without compromising the show...
...ANGELES -- What's worse, TV cops who sing or TV cops who swear? America will get to decide that question this fall when producer Steven Bochco, who created Cop Rock (as well as Hill Street Blues), premieres his NYPD Blue on ABC. Bochco negotiated an unusual agreement with ABC over the crude vernacular he could use on the show. According to that confidential document, among the 30 or so prime-time words acceptable to ABC are such bizarre semi-obscenities as mother jumper and humphead, as well as a vulgar term for feces and a vulgar term for female genitalia...
...that was before the police started getting complaints from people who confused the NYPD cars with real SDPD vehicles. One citizen tried to flag down an NYPD car after seeing a burglary and was outraged when the pizza man kept right on going. To prevent such mix-ups, the state legislature is considering a bill that would bar vendors from using vehicles that look like police cars. To avoid a showdown, the Crottas have made some changes. The word pizza now appears in seven places on their cars, and the NYPD logo has been enlarged. But the confusion may just...