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LAWEEKLY entertainment columnist Nikki Finke: ABC/TOUCHSTONE's COMMANDER IN CHIEF series creator Rod Lurie replaced as showrunner by Steve Bochco today because of what sources say was Lurie's wanting to show a 'rough sex' scene between the President's daughter and a Secret Service agent in the back of a limo... Developing...

...Through the Web and various veterans groups, The New York Times contacted more than a dozen soldiers, all of whom had been on active duty in Iraq and have since returned. They had a variety of opinions on the war they served in, but were almost universally negative about the show that attempts to depict it.... When Steven Bochco's "Over There" began last month, many military blogs immediately began pumping round after round of ack-ack into it, suggesting that it is both opportunistic and clueless.... "There are a few bad war movies and TV shows, but this one takes the...

"Peace at any price" purveyors are going gaga over the new FX Channel series "depicting" the Iraq war, "Over There," produced by Steven Bochco of Hill Street Blues fame. "Wow! Anybody else watch Over There last night?" gushed a writer for the heavily-read antiwar blogsite, Daily Kos. "Within a few minutes . . . it was obvious that Iraq was Vietnam all over again." How a fictional show shot in La La Land could make anything about Iraq policy "obvious" is hard to fathom. But the series does tout its realism, as have some reviewers who've never gotten closer to...

I know, I know...vanity!I just heard about this show last night on O'Reilly. Steven Bochco promised a show with no politics that accurately covers what's going on in Iraq. The clips I've seen have looked great!

After a string of recent flops including the much-maligned Blind Justice, television producer Steven Bochco is again garnering high praise, this time for a series focusing on soldiers in the current Iraqi conflict. Over There, which debuts tonight on F/X, marks a milestone in television as the first series to fictionalize an ongoing war. Firsts are nothing new to Bochco, who became famous for creating groundbreaking dramas like L.A. Law and NYPD Blue (not to mention being the first to feature a naked derriere on broadcast television). And though Over There is his first foray into cable, Bochco's betting his...

. . . count on Steven Bochco's new series "Over There" to stir the already roiling pot of public opinion about the war in Iraq. [. . .] People who support the Bush administration's policies will probably see this series as anti-war. People opposed to the war -- or at least now ready for it to end -- might see it in another light. [. . .] The series chronicles the experiences of new Army recruits, "a squad of virgins" as the loudmouth sergeant calls them, who arrive in Iraq with equal doses of courage and terror. Besides witnessing their...

Hill Street Blues strays into the Iraq war zone Sarah Baxter, New York AN American soldier leans over an anonymous Iraqi corpse. “This dude was right there when I capped him,” he says. His friend whistles and says: “Nice shot.” Is it a depiction of war, a celebration of killing or a fair portrayal of the Iraqi conflict as experienced by US troops? American viewers will make up their minds this week with the launch of Over There, a drama series by Steven Bochco, the pioneering creator of Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue. It is the first television dramatisation...

As NYPD Blue leaves the air next Tuesday, the 12-year-old cop show will be laureled with words like "gritty" and "uncompromising." That feels half-right. NYPD Blue was uncompromising, all right, but only when it came to love scenes. The brainchild of David Milch and Steven Bochco, Blue was one of network television's great erotic experiments. Its nudity will linger long after its gumshoeing fades. Such brazen sexuality takes a certain degree of skill when one of your romantic leads (Dennis Franz) looks like a lightly medicated version of Captain Kangaroo. For all its merits, Blue never was much of an...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In 1993, many ABC network affiliates and conservative watchdogs told Steven Bochco that an adult-themed drama like "NYPD Blue" had no place on network television. Bochco, the man behind such hits as "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law," prevailed and got his gritty cop show on the air, but he thinks that wouldn't be possible in today's politically charged media landscape. "The medium has become increasingly conservative," he told reporters who visited the "Blue" set on the 20th Century Fox lot Thursday as part of the Television Critics Assn. winter press tour. The Emmy-winning police...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran producer Steven Bochco will begin production next month on Over There, a television drama inspired by the war in Iraq. The series will focus on one sergeant and his platoon, as well as the loved ones they left behind on the home front. It will air on FX, a U.S. cable channel. John Landgraf, the president of FX, said the show will not take a pro- or anti-war stance. "There's likely to be some controversy because the war is such a partisan football from both sides," he told the Hollywood Reporter trade paper. Many of Bochco's...