Re: CW renews six series

"Dimensional Traveler" <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

: William December Starr wrote:

:: In article <050320081908179668%cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
:: Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

::: I think that trying to understand what other people want is the
::: problem.  When a producer makes the show he wants to watch, you
::: get Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Deadwood.  When they try to make
::: what they think someone else wants, you get Cop Rock and The
::: Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.
::
:: I thought that Cop Rock was a case of somebody (Steven Bochco)
:: making a show that he wanted.
:
: He wanted to make a show that would show how "artistic" he could be. 
: Anytime someone in Hollyweird starts making shows or movies "to be 
: artistic" instead of to tell a story or because its something they'd 
: want to watch is a sign that a new brain eater has taken up residence.

Bochco wanted to see a story in which a cop committed murder in the 
service of a perceived higher good and got away with it on prime-time 
broadcast TV.  And he did.  People usually get so distracted by the 
stylistic problems of _Cop Rock_ that they completely ignore the 
revolutionary content for its time (1990) in American TV history.

A few years later he ditched the music and toned down the cops to the 
level of illegal battery and came up with _NYPD Blue_, but there was 
clearly an evolutionary process at work.

-Micky