Interview Ron Cowen In the fifty-minute solo portion of his interview, Ron Cowen talks about his childhood and early interest in theater, as well as his undergraduate and graduate education. He discusses how his UCLA professor Jerome Lawrence inspired him to begin writing plays and how, when he wrote his first play,...
Genre Legal Dramas Legal Dramas describe fictional shows with recurring characters centered in some manner with the court system.
Topic Runaway Production U.S. runaway productions are those which are developed and are intended for initial release/exhibition or television broadcast in the U.S., but are actually filmed in another country. There are two major types of runaway productions - ‘creative’ runaways, which depart because the story takes place...
Show Homicide: Life on the Street From Wikipedia: Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons (122 episodes) on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by a TV movie, which...
Show Miami Vice Miami Vice earned its nickname of "MTV cops" through its liberal use of popular rock songs and a pulsating, synthesized music track created by Jan Hammer. Segments of it closely resembled music videos--as quickly edited images, without dialogue, were often accompanied by contemporary hits such as...
Show Law & Order From Wikipedia: Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and...
Show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit From Wikipedia: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU ) is an American police procedural crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced. In the style of the original Law & Order , episodes are often...
Show Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues , one of the most innovative and critically acclaimed series in recent television history, aired on NBC from 1981 to 1987. Although never highly rated, NBC continued to renew Hill Street for its "prestige value" as well as the demographic profile of its fiercely loyal audience...