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Fox’s New Amsterdam (Tuesday, 9:00 p.m., WNYW 5) sounds like a mashup of Pocahontas and Forever Knight, but with out the animation or the vampires. The story for this new series starts in 1642 when a Dutch soldier (Danish import Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) saves a Native American girl and is given the gift/curse of immortality and not ageing until he finds his true love. Fast forward to today and that soldier is now NYPD homicide detective John Amsterdam, who now has to deal with a new partner (British import Zuleikha Robinson).
Hopefully it will not be just another cop show with a twist, but one with some depth. Still anything is better than another moronic Fox fakeality show and Fox will actually give it a chance. Plus, it seems to have been filmed in the city, so even if it isn’t any good to watch it is good for the local economy!
Also of note this week:
Treasures in the Harbor (Monday, 10:00, WNET 13) Channel thirteen’s President Emeritus Bill Baker takes a tour of all the National Parks in New York Harbor in both New York and New Jersey, some you may not even know about.
The Real Housewives of New York City (Tuesday, 11:00 p.m., Bravo) Talk about false advertising! It appears all the hausfraus in this new fakeality series are all rich white Manhattanites. So how real can it be?
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I wonder what Pete Hamil has to say about the "New Amsterdam" t.v. show. Sounds like a borrowed plot premise from his (fun but flawed) historical novel Forever, in which a young Irish immigrant is blessed with immortality in the 1740s, but cursed to remain on Manhattan Island for eternity.
Pete Hamill has complained about the similarities, though he apparently didn't file a lawsuit, for reasons passing understanding. Everyone who knows of the book's existence has commented on the plot similarities.
Well, he can't file a lawsuit because you can't copyright "concepts". The stories aren't that similar... the characters themselves are entirely different and the whole idea of an immortal looking for true love isn't any different than the half dozen vampire detective shows we've seen where the vampire wants to be mortal again so he can fall in love.
...and when you condense Forever down, a guy named Conner that hails from a Celtic land and finds himself in NY and immortal... Highlander, right?
zzzz....
It was my understanding that the two are actually rather a lot closer than you say, but as I've neither read the book nor seen the show (obviously, since it hasn't debuted), I can't comment further. I know only what I read on the subject several months ago. I guess I'll just assume you're right.
what kind of cops look like that in new york? c'mon man!
Cops on tv never look like real cops. If they did everyone would root for the bad guys.