Kim Delaney.....SHHHHHWING!!!!!
Posted on 04/01/2018 7:22:33 PM PDT by Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
The unwavering TV writer-producer, winner of 10 Emmys, butted heads with networks and almost always won.
Steven Bochco, the strong-willed writer and producer who brought gritty realism and sprawling ensemble casts to the small screen with such iconic series as Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, died Sunday morning, a family spokesman told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 74.
Suffering with leukemia, Bochco received a stem cell transplant from an anonymous 23-year-old in late 2014.
"Steven fought cancer with strength, courage, grace and his unsurpassed sense of humor," spokesman Phillip Arnold said. "He died peacefully in his sleep [at home] with his family close by."
In May 2016, he met the man that prolonged his life.
Bochco, a 10-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, also was behind the Neil Patrick Harris ABC comedy-drama Doogie Howser, M.D. and the TNT drama Murder in the First.
A New York City native who began at Universal Studios in the mid-1960s, Bochco time and time again refused to bend to network chiefs or standards and practices execs, thus earning rare creative control during his five decades of envelope-pushing work.
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Thanks for the memories, Mr. Bocho. Prime Time in the 80’s and early 90’s belonged to his law and order type shows.
RIP
Hill Street Blues Changed Cop completely change Dramas! A great talent lost. RIP
I heard that baseball’s Rusty Staub passed, as well.
One of the best opening themes on TV. The piano is easy to listen to..
Hill street blues was the best of the bunch. I will never forget the first episode and some of the characters. Lets be careful out there!
He certainly pushed the envelope with his shows, including nudity and foul language. Certainly, his shows were well-received and well written. I did enjoy L.A. Law for their legal dramas and for introducing the tv world to Courtney Thorne-Smith as a Lakers cheerleader. 0_0
Cant wach them now, they’re too unreal and timid to me. At the time they were the most realistic on tv.
Indeed it did. It, in a way, gave birth to the various series that followed, to include Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, and so on.
Prior to that was a cruel mix of soap operas, crappy cop shows, sitcoms and game shows.
I confess I probably haven’t watched any of Boscho’s shows (L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues or NYPD Blue), though I do remember how big NYPD Blue was in its day.
The freaky part is that tonight I was watching videos of Boscho talking about his shows on Youtube, and then I switch to his wikipedia entry...to find he died today.
Story editor for several Columbo episodes.
Kim Delaney.....SHHHHHWING!!!!!
RIP Steven .. HSB & NYPD were a couple of my very favorite American shows, groundbreaking quality.
RIP
Mark
One of the best opening themes on TV. The piano is easy to listen to..
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That song came to mind when they mentioned “Hill Street Blues”.
Including the late Stephen J. Cannell.
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