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Than they had done five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch. and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. - ♪ and lets be careful out there ♪ - at the time, steven bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-new. - this is the police! we have a warrant for your arrest! - hit it! - you have ten seconds to open this door! - and so his idea was to combine a grit...

As sort of a new-wave cop show. johnson: yeah, its a cop show for the 80s. i mean, we use a lot of mtv images and rock music to help describe the mood and feeling of our show. graham: in a lot of ways, you dont get "miami vice" without mtv because in a lot of ways, "miami vice" was a long video. the music was such a big part of that show. [ phil collins "in the air tonight" plays ] michael mann: there was an allure to using great music that everybody was listening to as opposed to the routine ki...

Special counsel, to be frank, its a cooler job with more sponsor billet-y. special attorney, all it means is that every cop show your ever seen where someone tells an officer you operating outside your jurisdiction. special attorney has the right to do that. -- washington d. c. , including l. a. , there was a possibility he might into do that, he is saying, look, i make sure i had authority do that. but i never asked to be special counsel. the bigger issue here is that republicans are knocking o...

- "the x-files" changed the way people watch television. - you could sense these successful creators trying to see how they could do things different than they had done five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch. and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. - ♪ and lets be careful out there ♪ - at the time, steven bochco was a very successful producer of hour dramas and wanted to try something brand-new...

Miami vice is that it was not dead. very much, the approach was okay, the call is a television series but we will make one- hour movies every single week. >> they were just describing the show as a new wave of cop show. >> its a capture for the 80s. we use a lot of mtv images and rock music to help describe the mood and feeling of our show. >> in a lot of ways, you dont get miami vice without mtv. because in a lot of ways miami vice was a long video. the music was a big part of that show. >> the...

So i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abcs broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. >> i was sitting with a pad and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldnt show. grown-ups sitting in a room doodling. >> then we started on the language. >> we heard some reporter call it the lowlife with the brains of a flea and the balls of a moth. >> the program premiered with an advertising boycott. >> channel...

Show. >> its just pure science fiction. thats probably what i like most about it. >> "the x-files" changed the way people watched television. >> you could sense these successful creators trying to see how they could do things different five or ten years ago. sometimes that led to really challenging network television that was cool and fun to watch. and sometimes it just seemed to fall off the edge a little bit. ♪ lets be careful out there ♪ >> at the time, steven bochco was a very successful...

Is it okay if i come a little... a little closer? is that okay? you take one more step, ill shoot ya. thats all im gonna say. [alan] raylan givens is a us marshal played by timothy olyphant. raylan often likes to circumvent justice and manuever people he knows are bad into circumstances in which he can shoot them and it will be considered justified. marshal, i wanna tell you something important. [gunshot] [shell clinks] [melanie] justified is a western thats brought into a southern cop show. wou...

Played by timothy olyphant. raylan often likes to circumvent justice and manuever people he knows are bad into circumstances in which he can shoot them and it will be considered justified. marshal, i wanna tell you something important. [gunshot] [shell clinks] [melanie] justified is a western thats brought into a southern cop show. would you shoot me if you get the chance? you make me pull, ill put ya down. [daniel] you watch the first season of that show, hes killing people at a rate of two to ...

Didnt, we were gonna, you know, kinda get swept out. >> ugh, you son of a [ bleep ] >> and so i came up with the notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abcs broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. i was sitting with a pen and a pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldnt show. grown-ups sitting in a room, you know, doodling. then we started in on the language. >> we heard some reporter called the lowlife [ bleep ] turne...