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Whole lot of original programing for cable, but they were airing movies. so we needed to compete and i felt that if we didn't, we were going to kind of get swept out. >> you son of a -- >> and so i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r-rated. when abc's 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 wouldn't show. grown-ups sitting in a room doodling. >> then we started on the language. >> we heard some reporter called the low life asshole with the...

Out. so i came up with the notion of doing a cop show that was "r" rated. when abc's broadcast standards read our script, they went berserk. >> i was sitting with a pad and pencil drawing pictures of breasts to try to show them what we would show and what we wouldn't show. grown-ups sitting in a room doodling. >> we started on language. >> we heard some reporter call the low life -- >> the program premiered with an advertising boycott. >> channel 7, shame on you. >> it was such an immediate hit, that boycott lasted four weeks. >> line them up. >> they could use the nudity and curse words to go...

His idea was to combine a gritty cop show with a broadway musical. >> i saw one in which gang bangers were in jail. they began to sing. life in the hood ain't no pizza pie. everybody die when the bullets fly. wait a minute. hold on. >> i thought, well, this is it. this is going to be great. this is going to be as innovative as anything have i done. ♪ ♪ >> it circled the drain. >> i will give credit to anybody who goes outside the box and swings really hard for the

So i came up with a notion of doing a cop show that was r rated. when abc's 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 wouldn't show. grown-ups sitting in a room doodling. >> then we started on the language. >> we heard it with the brains of a flea and the balls of a moth. >> the program premiered with an advertising boycott. >> channel 7, shame on you! >> but it was such an immediate hit, that boycott lasted, oh, four weeks. >> they could use the nudity and the ...

Coffee. >> we didn't want to do a standard cop show where you got your crime and you got your two cops and you catch the bad guy and you sweat him and he confesses. and that's it. cops have personal lives that impact their behavior in profound ways. >> well, what about it? he here? >> don't get excited. we're working on it. >> how is this for logic? if he's not here and he's not elsewhere he is lost. >> he's not lost. >> never in my entire life have i listened to so much confidence covered up by so much unmitigated crap. find my client, or i swear i'll have you up on charges. >> there would be...