I hadn’t seen this photo before, where the cast of LA Law recreated a Mad Magazine cover (with Bochco as Alfred E)
https://mobile.twitter.com/joe_a_blevins/status/980628381619408897 On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 7:58 PM Steve Timko <[email protected]> wrote: > Chevy Chase actually has a good point, but being Chevy Chase he craps all > over himself making it. > Bochco did a law show that actually dealt well with real legal issues, but > Mariel Hemingway couldn't play a convincing lawyer. > Chevy starts in around 16 minutes. > > https://youtu.be/WOdBo80vBh8 > > > Not sent from an iPhone > On Apr 1, 2018, at 5:39 PM, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue set standards other shows had to struggle >> to meet. Murder One was ahead of its time in terms of an evening drama with >> a season-long story arc, and Brooklyn South was ahead of its time in terms >> of how gritty a series could be. Of course one has to mention his part in >> creating the universe in which Peter Falk could wear a trenchcoat in LA and >> solve homicides. Even his flops were memorable in their badness (Cop Rock & >> Public Morals... I liked Public Morals). His later years, he seemed to have >> shrunken into the formula of so many cop and lawyer shows, often stating in >> interviews that broadcast TV would not dare attempt something >> groundbreaking like NYPD Blue in 2018. >> >> I was in college when NYPD Blue premiered and one of my close friends was >> a conservative guy who had read all the publicity surrounding the show's >> violence and sex and language, and he was ready to write the network and >> advertisers to complain. I urged him to wait until the show was actually on >> the air, and invited him over to watch it. And that's what he did, and >> every Tuesday that year he'd come over to watch it, because he was hooked. >> >> Also worth noting the episode of Politically Correct when Chevy Chase >> lost it at Bochco, blaming his TV shows for the downfall of western >> civilization. It was unfair of Chase, and Bochco held it together for a >> long time before fighting back... regardless, it made for good TV. And >> Bochco liked good TV. >> >> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 5:16 PM, Steve Timko <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Made a lot of good TV. >>> >>> Link >>> <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-bochco-dead-hill-street-blues-la-law-nypd-blue-creator-741199> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
