• Most Popular
  • Most Shared

"NYPD Blue" creator Milch working on HBO cop drama

Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:23am EST
Creator and executive producer David Milch answers questions during the panel for the HBO series ''John From Cincinnati'' at the Television Critics Association 2007 winter press tour in Pasadena, California, January 12, 2007. Milch is returning to his ''NYPD Blue'' roots with his third drama pilot at HBO in three years. REUTERS/Phil McCarten

By Nellie Andreeva

Television

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Veteran TV producer David Milch is returning to his "NYPD Blue" roots with his third drama pilot at HBO in three years.

"Last of the Ninth" deals with rampant NYPD corruption in the 1970s. Milch co-wrote the pilot with fellow "NYPD Blue" executive producer Bill Clark, a former New York homicide detective.

Milch is a cop drama veteran, having received his start on Steven Bochco's "Hill Street Blues" before moving on to co-create ABC's Emmy-winning "NYPD Blue" with Bochco.

Milch tackled similarly tough themes in his dark Western "Deadwood," which ended its three-season HBO run in 2006.

"Last of the Ninth" stems from Milch's development deal with HBO, which was extended in August, following the network's cancellation of "John From Cincinnati" after its first season.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Television


More from Reuters

Demonstrator holds a signboard with a slogan "Bla bla bla ACT NOW" during a rally outside the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 12, 2009. REUTERS/Christian Charisius

"Polluters are given rights to continue their dirty habits"

A climate change scientist blasts proposals for a cap and trade system, arguing it allows dirty industries to continue polluting, instead of rewarding innovation.  Full Article | Full Coverage 

    Climate Conference
    People walk by a Bank of America branch in New York. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

    The search is on -- again

    Bank of America has less than two weeks left before Chief Executive Ken Lewis steps down. With the top candidate out of the picture, here's a look at what might happen next.  Full Article 

    Executive compensation
    Indian woman mourns death of her relative killed in tsunami in Cuddalore. When an earthquake of magnitude 9.15 struck off Indonesia's Aceh province on December, 26, 2004, it triggered a huge tsuanmi that raced across the Indian Ocean and hit Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India. The worst natural disaster of the decade left 230,000 people dead or missing. Taken on December 28, 2004 by Arko Datta

    Pictures that defined a decade

    A woman's grief amid the tsunami devastation and one woman's fight against police in the Amazon are among the indelible Reuters images of the last 10 years.  Slideshow 

    Pictures