Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'hillstreetblues'
April 10, 2007
If you tuned into WNBC last night at 10 p.m. you may have discovered that NBC’s The Black Donnellys has been canceled and in its place the supposedly funny Thank God You're Here. We loved the gritty drama and the fact that it was filmed on location in the city. As sort of the booby prize, we are getting the rest of the series online, but still that doesn’t really satisfy. Now this is all......
Continue Reading "The Black Donnellys Canceled"March 6, 2005
Two cops were injured in a car accident on the Upper East Side yesterday. Accidents do happen, but the Post's first sentence reads, "Two women cops were hospitalized yesterday after an early morning fender-bender..." Ah, this is one for Ask Gothamist: Why are male cops just cops, but lady cops "women cops"? In honor of this, we'd like to salute the female cops out there, as well as television's salute to gender-barrier-breaking shows, like Police......
Continue Reading "The Post Calls Out Lady Cops"March 1, 2005
Tonight is the last episode of NYPD Blue. Once upon a time, NYPD Blue was known as the "other cop show" against fellow newbie (it had been one season) Law & Order, but quickly, NYPD Blue emerged as a sadder, more complicated, and even more intimate companion to creator Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues. Gothamist had watched NYPD Blue in the early days, from David Caruso's naked butt to Jimmy Smits (always Victor Sifuentes in......
Continue Reading "NYPD Blue Closes Its Case Book"October 14, 2004
These days, reading a Hollywood trade is like seeing a TV Guide grid from the 80s - it's all about making movies from 80s TV shows. Today, Universal announced they are remaking Miami Vice, ideally with Colin Farrell and Jamie Fox as Crockett and Tubbs. Earlier this week, Stephen J. Cannell said he's going to go forward with the long-awaited A-Team movie! And Robert Luketic, best known as the director those canonical films, Legally......
Continue Reading "Hollywood Loves The 80s"
