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  Bochco, Steven
Steven Bochco stayed twelve years with Universal, working his way up from writer to story editor (for the Robert Stack segments in the adventure drama series The Name of the Game, which aired from 1968 to 1971, and later for Columbo).
Bochco wouldn't be Bochco without at least one taboo being broken: Here, Neil Patrick Harris hit the news when his character lost his virginity, in one of the later episodes of the series.
Bochco has thus succeeded in integrating different aspects and perspectives into what seems (or seemed) to be one and the same story.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/bochcosteve/bochcosteve.htm   (1618 words)

  
 Tavis Smiley . Archive . Monday February 28th . Transcript | PBS
Bochco: And what I always wanted to try to do was to have an ending that befitted a show that's been a staple on the schedule for 12 years, you know, and not just sort of kill folks.
Bochco: And to be able to say that in the 12th season of this show we've been creatively strong and vital and enthusiastic is a real testament to, you know, the creative energy and focus of a large number of folks.
Bochco: "Blind Justice" is about a guy, Detective Jim Dunbar, who, at the height of his career and in the prime of his life, loses his vision by gunshot, you know, during a bank hold-up, and in which he acquits himself heroically and saves lives of a great number of cops.
www.pbs.org /kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200502/20050228_transcript.html   (2804 words)

  
 Steven Bochco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer.
Bochco was born in New York City into an Italian family.
Bochco has completed a pilot ABC show, Hollis and Rae, and is said to be developing a baseball drama and another legal drama for ABC in partnership with Chris Gerolmo.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steven_Bochco   (752 words)

  
 Metacafe Blog » Steven Bochco
Café Confidential was conceived by Hollywood producer Steven Bochco.
Bochco then selected the best of the stories for Metacafe, which is what you’ll find at Café Confidential right now.
Metacafe and Hollywood producer Steven Bochco are seeking the next generation of storytellers, with cash and prizes for the best ones.
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 Steven Bochco
Steven Bocho (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer.
He has been involved in a number of popular hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law[?] and NYPD Blue.
Steven Ronald Bochco was born in New York City.
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 Steven Bochco's Cops and Lawyers
Because Bochco is such a skilled practitioner of the one-hour dramatic format, he makes this message not merely palatable, but hugely entertaining.
Bochco couldn't have predicted how the trial would end, of course, but given the drubbing the legal profession took in the process, he could not have picked a worse time to launch a show about heroic, high-priced celebrity lawyers.
Bochco's mistake was not in following one case for an entire season, as he'll probably conclude if the show fails, but in choosing the wrong focus and a slick, glossy visual style to suit that focus.
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 Steven Bochco St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
Although he wrote feature film screenplays early in his career, Steven Bochco has made his mark as the creator and producer of successful television series, thus having an impact upon a larger audience than most filmmakers can claim.
Bochco's series are noted for well-written scripts featuring a variety of characters portrayed by an expert ensemble cast.
Born Steven Ronald Bochco in New York City on December 16, 1943,; he was the son of a Russian immigrant who had been a child prodigy on the violin.
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 Steven Bochco News :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco claims that the series was sold for $400,000 an episode when its real value was at least $700,000.
Steven Bochco, executive producer of ABC's police drama NYPD Blue, does not agree with the network's decision to shift the series from its current 10 p.m.
Bochco and 20th Century Fox settled a 19-month-old legal dispute on Friday, which began when Bochco claimed he was underpaid for reruns of his gritty police drama that air on a Fox-owned cable network, Daily Variety reports.
www.hollywood.com /celebs/news/id/189891   (1195 words)

  
 Steven Bochco by a Landslide
It's unclear whether, under Bochco, the president of the United States will continue to be modeled, as she has been under Lurie, after Susan Lyne, the ABC programming chief who exited in May 2004 during one of the network's many exec shuffles and who now runs Martha Stewart's operation.
Bochco has his own overall deal, signed last month, to create and produce TV shows at Touchstone, only his is for three years.
Bochco's most recent ABC series was the short-lived "Blind Justice," which took the "NYPD Blue" time slot when that envelope-pushing cop show ended its 12-season run.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100702081.html   (842 words)

  
 Television Heaven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco broke new language and sexual barriers with "NYPD Blue", and even had the nerve to bring TV viewers a 16-year-old doctor ("Doogie Howser, MD").
Bochco recruited former attorney and "Cagney And Lacey" producer Terry Louise Fisher; signed a deal with 20th Century Fox; and the two came up with "L.A. Law," the story of attorneys in an upscale law firm.
Bochco was ready to produce other series, and he began talks with the three networks.
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 Steven Bochco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
'''Steven Bochco''' (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer.
Bochco was pushed from MTM in 1985 following the failure of his 1983 The Bay City Blues baseball project.
Bochco went on to develop, as creator and executive producer, L.A. Law (1986-1994) which was first aired on NBC.
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 Steven Bochco @ Filmbug
Born in Manhattan, Bochco started his television career in 1965 when he parlayed an MCA fellowship into a writing job at Universal during his junior and senior years at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University).
Bochco's television credits as co-creator and executive producer include Doogie Howser, M.D., Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Cop Rock, NYPD Blue, Murder One, Public Morals, on the CBS Television Network and the upcoming Total Security.
Among his numerous awards and citations, Bochco received the Writers Guild's 1994 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television in recognition of the contributions and advancements he has made to the television writing profession.
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 Extratv.com : Steven Bochco
Creator Steven Bochco says he's guilty on all charges.
At ABC, Bochco, and fellow producer David E. Kelley, scrubbed-in with the quirky drama "Doogie Howser, M.D." But in 1990, he hit a sour note with the unorthodox show, “Cop Rock.” Bochco says, “I loved that show.
Bochco says, “With all due respect to how talented David is, I was sorry he was so unhappy and made everybody else around him so unhappy that it was an inevitable consequence of that instability that he had to go.
extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/05_02/05_21e.html   (286 words)

  
 Steven Bochco — Infoplease.com
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Steven Bochco: he pushes the boundaries of prime time.(Biography)
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 Steven Bochco's latest series goes into the heat of battle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco, who has a history of collaborating on series (with David E. Kelley on "Doogie Howser, M.D." and "L.A. Law" and with David Milch on "NYPD Blue"), said Gerolmo is doing the bulk of the writing for "Over There."
Bochco dismissed complaints that a fictional TV show about a war should not be broadcast during that conflict.
Bochco said he would not be disappointed if the series quickly becomes irrelevant.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05215/547593.stm   (1493 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Death By Hollywood: Books: Steven Bochco,Dennis Franz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco's tale of frustration, vanity and murder in Hollywood may be a slick, entertaining beach read, but unsuspecting readers who pop this audio adaptation into their cassette deck may feel slightly queasy by the end of the first tape.
There was an episode of MARRIED WITH CHILDREN that made a joke about the "Steven Bochco Hall of Failures," and this book sounds like it'll have an alcove in such a museum.
It reads like a catharsis for Bochco about the shark-eat-shark nature of the entertainment industry, told second-person from the POV of a screenwriting agent, with far too much Mamet Dammit-level profanity to be considered hardboiled.
www.amazon.ca /Death-Hollywood-Steven-Bochco/dp/0739307002   (1193 words)

  
 Bochco creates confessional Web videos - USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco says he views the Web as a medium best suited for snippets of entertainment that can be consumed between tasks, something he calls a "mental shower."
Bochco said he has been thinking about what kind of content works best on the Internet for nearly a decade and concluded that straight storytelling, not elaborate production values, works best.
Steven Spielberg recently partnered with reality TV producer Mark Burnett on the site Onthelot.com, which offers aspiring filmmakers a chance to earn a $1 million development deal.
www.usatoday.com /tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-03-19-bochco-video_N.htm?csp=34   (665 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Death by Hollywood: Books: Steven Bochco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco, a two-time Edgar Award winning writer, has produced a darkly comical crime novel having also installed elements of betrayal and seduction.
Bochco has described the novel as "a tale which he could not tell on television." This I do not agree with.
However, Bochco does not focus upon the money and sex which these stars have, but the sordidness which has spread through this corrupt industry.
www.amazon.co.uk /Death-Hollywood-Steven-Bochco/dp/0747571104   (673 words)

  
 Jew of the Day - Steven Bochco   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco was fired from MTM in 1985 following the failure of his (1983) Bay City Blues baseball project.
All four shows failed to match Bochco's earlier success though "Murder One" and "Over There" garnered critical praise from critics and have developed cult followings.
In 2005, Bochco has taken charge of Commander in Chief (2005-) which was the creation of Rod Lurie and brought in a new writing team.
www.jewoftheday.com /categories/entertainment/Bochco%20Steven.htm   (536 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Death by Hollywood by Steven Bochco
From the acclaimed co-creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, Death by Hollywood is a suspenseful, shocking, and darkly comic crime novel about a screenwriter, a billionaire's wife, a murder, and, of course, a cop.
Savvy, funny, sexy, and streetwise, Death by Hollywood is the tale Steven Bochco couldn't tell on television.
Steven Bochco takes us on a twisty and dark murder investigation, hitting producers, writers, actors, and cops squarely below the belt, where, as you all know, Hollywood resides.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/eBook16909.htm   (754 words)

  
 Metacafe Press » Steven Bochco
Bochco worked with Palo Alto-based Metacafe to produce 44 “episodes” featuring people found on the street and in shopping malls.
Bochco worked with Palo Alto-based Metacafe Inc. to produce 44 “episodes” featuring people found on the street and in shopping malls.
The new video confessional channel, which is created by acclaimed Hollywood producer Steven Bochco, features short videos of twentysomethings sharing highly personal experiences such as My First Time, My Weird Family or Most Embarrassing Moment.
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 Steven Bochco Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco's series typically feature several interwoven plots and characters, deal with social issues and shift their tone from comedy to drama with deftness and realism.
Bochco returned to more familiar ground with "NYPD Blue", an urban cop drama that reunited him with fellow "Hill Street" contributors David Milch (who co-created the series), Dennis Franz (who acted in "Hill Street") and James McDaniel.
Bochco broke further ground in 1995 with the courtroom series "Murder One".
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/189891   (1232 words)

  
 World Screen - Home
Bochco Takes Over as Producer of Commander in Chief
LOS ANGELES, October 10: Steven Bochco is taking over production of Commander in Chief, Touchstone Television's White House dr
According to reports, the veteran Bochco was hired to help the series run more smoothly and get episodes done on time.
www.worldscreen.com /newscurrent.php?filename=bochco1010.htm   (217 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Death by Hollywood: Books: Steven Bochco,Dennis Franz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bochco delights in Hollywood sleaze, and his years in the industry (he co-created "NYPD Blue" and "L.A. Law") have given him a good ear for its vicious banter.
The conniving characters, though shamelessly stereotypical, are painted with exuberant vigor, and, as the plot accelerates to its inevitable twist, Bochco maintains a seductive atmosphere where nothing is what it seems and someone is always watching.
It was penned by Steven Bochco- the creative force behind TV shows like Hill St. Blues, NYPD Blue, and L.A. Law- and spins a windy tale about a blocked screenwriter, sexual escapades, money, and murder.
www.amazon.com /Death-Hollywood-Steven-Bochco/dp/0739307002   (1300 words)

  
 Dialogue: Bochco enters the online world
Creating iconic series including "Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law" has made Steven Bochco a television-industry legend, but he isn't one for resting on his laurels.
Bochco: I have to tell you, as someone who's a lot older than young men and women on the Internet, I'm kind of astonished at the degree to which people will disclose intimate details.
By the way, I think it would be more likely to be done by a so-called amateur than by a production company or somebody like me because you really do have to do it on a shoestring.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /hr/content_display/television/news/e3i56b3e1536d8623e985fcf8a2562a9516   (2438 words)

  
 Steven Bochco Biography, Photos, News for Steven Bochco | TVGuide.com
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 Steven Bochco Biography | Authors and Artist for Young Adults
Detractors argued that many of the so-called novelties in Bochco's shows had already appeared in programs such as M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, and Barney Miller, but that didn't prevent Bochco from gaining a reputation as "perhaps Hollywood'.....
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