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Though it ran for seven seasons, the NBC cop drama was never treated right by NBC.
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It and Hill Street Blues were my two favorite police dramas.
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Well, viewers like the drama that often accompanies crime shows, shows like Criminal Minds and Cold Case where the life of each main detective character is in the spotlight more than the actual crime. Viewers like high speed chases, mass shootings, hospital drama, love affairs, and Homicide more or less avoided a lot of that stuff except for a few rare occasions. Homicide gives viewers a close approximation to what real detective investigations are like, so although it's more realistic, it doesn't hold all the extra melodrama that other crime shows carry. It's definitely underappreciated and I'm surprised it ended when it did. Law & Order SVU and Criminal Minds are pushing twenty seasons by now and although they're good shows, I don't think they compare well to Homacide, Cold Case or The Wire.
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Another major factor was that the show was given a lousy time slot: Friday nights at 10pm opposite Nash Bridges on CBS. Originally, however, the show was originally supposed to air on Thursday nights at 10pm, which was considered one of the best time slots on the network at the time. Unfortunately, however, ER tested so well, that Leslie Moonves, president of ER's production company, Warner Bros. Television, heavily campaigned NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield to give ER the prized Thursday slot instead. To this day, I still despise Moonves and his cronies at CBS Corporation for this very reason.
shareHey, ER was a great show. I hate that this show which was excellent was not treated fairly but ER was a combination of the quirkiness and character studies that this show did but it did appeal to far more audiences. It was the perfect storm in that regard and rightly deserved the coveted Thursday night slot.
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Well, if ER appealed to far more audiences, I'm sure it would have been just as competitive on other nights. When you program for a network, you always try to give every show a fair shot. Homicide: Life on the Street deserved the Thursday night slot much more as it had more to prove and needed all the help it could get.
shareI dunno.... I just tried to get into it - and just like the wire, I stopped after a short while - in fact, while i saw the first season of the wire, hoping to get the hype, this one I stopped after 2 episodes. It does feel like the wire though - lots and lots of talking about bullshit mixed with lame wise-cracks. Meanwhile the case is going nowhere. I can see that it both of these shows have major critical acclaim, but I don't get it - at all.
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