Brian Damage
09-17-2011, 06:49 AM
1990-2010
"Law & Order"
Like a combo pack of beloved formats, producer Dick Wolf's bifurcated 1990 NBC crime series was half cop show -- detectives investigated a murder -- and half law drama as the prosecution's case made its way through a twisty legal system. The fast-paced, facts-only episodes revived both the procedural as a genre, and New York as a gritty, mood-setting location for tough-minded police shows. De-emphasizing the core characters' personal lives also allowed Wolf to change departing (or fired) cast members without losing viewers, who kept coming back -- often in marathon sessions during its ubiquitous syndicated life on cable -- for stories that were often shrewdly transparent mirrors of true-life cases.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118042646?refcatid=14
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_--YjWiyF8eE/S-3LOui9FZI/AAAAAAAAGrk/or9eyTokbJE/s1600/photo_lrg.jpg
"Law & Order"
Like a combo pack of beloved formats, producer Dick Wolf's bifurcated 1990 NBC crime series was half cop show -- detectives investigated a murder -- and half law drama as the prosecution's case made its way through a twisty legal system. The fast-paced, facts-only episodes revived both the procedural as a genre, and New York as a gritty, mood-setting location for tough-minded police shows. De-emphasizing the core characters' personal lives also allowed Wolf to change departing (or fired) cast members without losing viewers, who kept coming back -- often in marathon sessions during its ubiquitous syndicated life on cable -- for stories that were often shrewdly transparent mirrors of true-life cases.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118042646?refcatid=14
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_--YjWiyF8eE/S-3LOui9FZI/AAAAAAAAGrk/or9eyTokbJE/s1600/photo_lrg.jpg