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The Shield: The Complete Series Collection - DVD Review

3 November 2009 2:17 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Television has always had a love affair with the occupation of .cop.. I read somewhere that the most portrayed occupation in television and movies is a police officer. Whether good or bad or slightly a little of both, we love to watch the men and women in blue that live inside crime dramas. The .police officer. we identify with has had to evolve. From early cop shows like the clean-cut, one dimensional Dragnet to the ground breaking .80s Hill Street Blues, and even later to the .90s NYPD Blue - which introduced us to Detective Sipowicz. As an audience, we had to evolve too thanks to history and the way we view the job of a cop. »

- Dana Rae

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TV Review: NBC Delivers Medical Action With Excellent ‘Trauma’

28 September 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – The wave of new fall shows is coming to an end this week with so many shows having debuted to date that we’ve already had our first cancellation of the season (The CW’s horrible “The Beautiful Life). But NBC has saved one of the best for last in “Trauma,” an expertly produced and acted series that stands as the most promising of the three new medical series this season and arguably the show with the most long-term potential, period.

Television Rating: 4.0/5.0 Character-driven, ensemble dramas like “Trauma” have been the backbone of television for a very long time. From “Hill Street Blues” to “ER,” viewers like to watch people who go above and beyond but also have everyday problems and insecurities like you and me. We need to see ourselves in these superhuman characters. It is their willingness to do what most people won’t that makes them »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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DVD: Review:Homicide

8 September 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Television tends to trump movies when it comes to staging richly detailed cop dramas, but David Mamet’s 1991 film Homicide is the rare big-screen policier that can stand up to The Shield, The Wire, Hill Street Blues, and Homicide: Life On The Street. What makes Homicide especially impressive is that while Mamet has written and directed terrific movies before and since, he’s rarely shown such ambition. As a playwright, Mamet has wrestled with big themes, but as a filmmaker, he’s favored small, finely crafted genre pieces, noteworthy for their intricate plots and punchy dialogue. On a fundamental ... »

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Joss Whedon: Master of cult TV

2 September 2009 6:11 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »

For the second class in our EW University course on TV Auteurs, Prof. Adam B. Vary offers this overview of the TV career of Joss Whedon, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Dollhouse. Also, check out this photo gallery of our favorite shows by four legendary showrunners. What Stephen Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue), Norman Lear (All in the Family, The Jeffersons), and Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) were in the 20th century television, Joss Whedon has become today: Nothing less than a television brand. His name alongside the "Created by" credit during the opening titles guarantees you are about to watch a show that swings for the fences; a show as keenly attuned to its female characters as its male ones; a show that tackles Big Ideas and Big Themes without skimping on Great Entertainment; a show that is unafraid to Go There, from allowing the »

- Adam B. Vary

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[DVD Review] Fracture

6 July 2009 11:34 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

When Grisham was king of the novel-to-movie adaptation, a title stolen briefly from the hands of Stephen King, law dramas would hit theaters every year and would consistently entertain. As the Hollywood system is wont to do, the introduction of Grisham-films to the theatrical sphere spurred a mass exodus of other legal dramas from the page to the screen. But then there was a lull. It seemed for quite a while that stories about court cases were best shown on television – or maybe it was that audiences were inundated with Law & Order spin-offs to the point that no one wanted to pay to see them in theaters – who knows. The point is, when Fracture rolled around in 2007 it actually seemed fresh. Absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.

But the heart is fickle; or rather, the heart isn’t so easily fooled by the peak-a-boo antics of a film genre. »

- Lex Walker

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Bochco's Law: Forget Emmys, Just Get Invited Back

10 June 2009 11:14 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Steven Bochco (to Eric Estrin)

Steven Bochco, whose “Raising the Bar” began its second season this week on TNT, virtually defined the one-hour ensemble drama with the classic “Hill Street Blues,” winning a slew of Emmys in the process. But before “Hill Street,” “L.A. Law,” “NYPD Blue” and the many other shows he’s created and run over the years, Bochco was once a summer intern at Universal, talking his way out of a menial job and into a better opportunity. He spoke with Eric Estrin about palling around with that other Steven (and Stephen), the... »

- Lew Harris

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Bochco's Law: Just Get Invited Back

10 June 2009 10:55 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

The Emmy winner on how a summer job turned into his big Hollywood Breakthrough.

By Steven Bochco (to Eric Estrin)

Steven Bochco, whose “Raising the Bar” began its second season this week on TNT, virtually defined the one-hour ensemble drama with the classic “Hill Street Blues,” winning a slew of Emmys in the process. But before “Hill Street,” “L.A. Law,” “NYPD Blue” and the many other shows he’s created and run over the years, Bochco was once a summer intern at Universal, talking his way out of a menial job and into a better opportunity. He spoke with Eric Estrin about palling around with that other Steven (and Stephen), the... »

- Lew Harris

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Bello, Jackson and Breslin Set for Rape

1 March 2009 9:22 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Maria Bello, Samuel L. Jackson and Abigail Breslin have signed on to star in the indie drama Rape: A Love Story that Harold Becker is directing, say the trades. Becker’s last film was the 2001 John Travolta crime-thriller Domestic Disturbance, his other credits include Malice, City Hall and Mercury Rising. Based on the Joyce Carol Oates novella published in 2003, the story centers on a mother (Bello) recovering from a brutal gang rape who is stalked by the perpetrators but is protected by a sympathetic cop (Jackson). Breslin will play the woman’s12-year-old daughter, who witnesses the attack. John Mankiewicz, a Veteran TV scribe whose credits include Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Tales from the Crypt and House, adapted the screenplay. Michael Mendelsohn (Material Girls, Lord of War) is producing and financing through his Patriot Pictures banner Production is slated to begin in June. »

- James Cook

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