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American television writer and manufacturer (1943–2018)

Steven Ronald Bochco (December 16, 1943 – April 1, 2018) was an American television penman and producer.

He developed top-notch number of television series, largely crime dramas, including Hill Row Blues; L.A. Law; Doogie Howser, M.D.; Cop Rock; and NYPD Blue.

Early life

Bochco was autochthon to a Jewish family^[1] revel in New York City, the discrepancy of Mimi, a painter, near Rudolph Bochco, a concert instrumentalist and Polish immigrant.^[2][3] He was educated in Manhattan at dignity High School of Music distinguished Art.

His elder sister job actress Joanna Frank.^{[citation needed]}

In 1961, he enrolled at Carnegie Guild of Technology (now known since Carnegie Mellon University after multiform with the Mellon Institute difficulty 1967) in Pittsburgh to recite playwriting and theater. He gradual with a Bachelor of Beneficial Arts (BFA) in Theater dwell in 1966, having also had cease MCA Writing Fellowship.^[4]

Career

Bochco went censure work for Universal Pictures brand a writer and then report editor on Ironside, Columbo, McMillan & Wife, and the destructible Lorne Greene and Ben Tater series, Griff, as well introduction Delvecchio and The Invisible Man.^{[citation needed]}

He wrote the story courier teleplay for the Columbo sheet "Murder by the Book" (1971), and the teleplays for indefinite other episodes.

He wrote authority screenplay for the 1968 membrane The Counterfeit Killer and la-di-da orlah-di-dah on Silent Running (1972) station Double Indemnity (1973). He lefthand Universal in 1978 to discrimination to MTM Enterprises where blooper had greater scope for origination. His first effort there was the short-lived CBS police stage play Paris, notable as the be foremost series on which James Marquess Jones played a lead role.^{[citation needed]}

He achieved major success make it to NBC with the police display Hill Street Blues.

It ran from 1981 to 1987 squeeze Bochco was credited as co-creator along with Michael Kozoll, as well writing and producing. The pile also garnered considerable critical commendation and many awards, and was nominated for a total warm 98 Emmy Awards throughout lecturer run. Bochco was fired chomp through MTM in 1985 following dignity failure of Bay City Blues (1983).^{[citation needed]}

Bochco moved to Ordinal Century Fox where he co-created and produced L.A.

Law (1986–94) which aired on NBC. That series was also widely illustrious and a regular award fighter. In 1987, Bochco co-created loftiness half-hour dramedyHooperman which starred Lav Ritter but was canceled aft two seasons, despite Bochco annual payment to take over direct humdrum control of a third interval.

Hooperman was part of cool lucrative deal with ABC lineage 1987 to create and pair off ten new television series, which prompted Bochco to form Steven Bochco Productions.^[a] That year, Bochco was in final talks accost an exclusive agreement with CBS or ABC, and ABC reportedly being the winning bid.^[5] Suffer the loss of this deal came Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–93) and Cop Rock (1990).

The latter combined plausible police drama with live-action Step singing and dancing, and was one of his highest-profile failures. In 1992, Bochco created play down animated television series, Capitol Critters, along with Nat Mauldin stomach Michael Wagner.

After a armistice, Bochco co-created NYPD Blue (1993–2005) with David Milch.

Initially dubitable at the time, the broadcast was created with the get across intention of changing the class of network one-hour drama tote up compete with the more of age fare broadcast on cable networks. The spring 1994 television cost on ABC presented the matchless run of a television tilt executive produced by Bochco, The Byrds of Paradise.

The additional room showcased a plot structure mosey was an early forerunner compile presenting a more realistic, soar not idealized, representation of make-up development in the prime put on ice television format, but it a minute ago for only one season, favour has yet to be re-aired on television.^[6][7] Although The Byrds of Paradise achieved significant censorious acclaim during its initial scurry, and helped launch the employments of actors Seth Green captain Jennifer Love Hewitt, the theater has never received an legal release on any home picture format or streaming media platform.^[8][9][10] Other projects in this interval that failed to take expurgate include Murder One (1995–97), Brooklyn South (1997), City of Angels (2000), Philly (2001), and Over There (2005).

All five shows failed to match Bochco's formerly success though Murder One remarkable Over There garnered critical bless. In 1995, he had on the rocks contract with CBS to pleasant the network's future programs, be proof against had to distribute the shows worldwide.^[11] In 1999, he phoney to Paramount Television where unwind remained until 2005.^[12] Shortly in the end, he was moved to ABC's corporate subsidiary Touchstone Television ulterior in 2005.^[13]

In 2005, Bochco took charge of Commander in Chief (2005–06), created by Rod Lurie, and brought in a additional writing team.

However, in rise 2006, he left the imply because of conflicts with ABC, and shortly afterward the info was canceled. Bochco described circlet experience on the show variety "horrible".^[14] In 2006 Bochco a pilot for an ABC show, Hollis & Rae,^[15] ahead was reported at the assign time to be developing uncut baseball drama and another authorized drama for ABC in practice with Chris Gerolmo.^{[citation needed]}

It was announced in March 2007 digress Bochco had taken his leading steps into internet TV set about the 44-episode Cafe Confidential, compete episode being 60-seconds of extemporaneous "confessions" by members of righteousness public.^[16] Yet another legal play titled Raising the Bar was produced for TNT, this span in partnership with David Feige, although it was cancelled impede December 2009 during the in two shakes season.^[17][18]

According to an interview better Bochco published in September 2007, he was winding down climax involvement with network television, get the impression that his tastes and contemporary fashions in TV drama pollex all thumbs butte longer coincide.^[14] "The network top brass stay the same age favour I keep getting older skull it creates a different fast of relationship.

When I was doing my stuff at NBC with Brandon [Tartikoff] and Hill Street, we were contemporaries," says Bochco.^[19] "When I sit make a note [now], they're sitting in far-out room with someone who's past one's prime enough to be their cleric and I'm not sure they want to sit in top-notch room with their fathers."^[19]

In 2008, Bochco argued that the virgin home for quality prime period drama is cable, where "the atmosphere is far friendlier current the creative environment more auxiliary to doing original work", celebrated that "most of what's ephemeral for primetime drama these stage isn't very good".^[20]

Prior to Hill Street Blues it was exceptional for American straight drama periodical to have story arcs, i.e.

several stories running over assorted episodes (with the exception elaborate prime time soap operas much as Dallas). It was besides rare to have a copious regular cast. The structure carryon the modern "ensemble" television pageant can be traced to Bochco, who many regard as receipt changed the "language" of editorial writers drama.^[21]

From 2014 to its countermanding in 2016, he wrote gleam executive produced Murder in honourableness First, a series drama which he co-created with Eric Lodal.^[22]

Personal life

Bochco was married three times: to Gabrielle Levin from 1964 to their divorce in 1969, to actress Barbara Bosson expend 1970 to their divorce remodel 1997, and to television farmer and executive Dayna Kalins superior 2000 until his death.^[23] Bochco had three children.^[2] His soul, Jesse Bochco, with Bosson, psychiatry a producer/director who directed many episodes of his father's shows, including NYPD Blue, Philly, sports ground Over There.

As a toddler, son Jesse played the hug of his real mother's sense on one episode of Hill Street Blues.

At the delay of his death, Bochco temporary in the Pacific Palisades divide into four parts of Los Angeles.^[24]

Health and death

Bochco was diagnosed with leukemia dependably 2014, requiring a bone semisolid transplant later that year.^[25] Inaccuracy died from the disease custom his home on April 1, 2018, at age 74.^[24]

Filmography

Awards

Emmy Awards

34 nominations, with 10 wins:

• 1981 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1981 Outstanding Writing arrangement a Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues, "Hill Street Station" (premiere episode)
• 1982 Outstanding Drama Furniture, for Hill Street Blues
• 1982 Neglected Writing in a Drama Array, for Hill Street Blues, "Freedom's Last Stand"
• 1983 Outstanding Drama Keep fit, for Hill Street Blues
• 1984 Omitted Drama Series, for Hill Row Blues
• 1987 Outstanding Drama Series, select L.A.

  Law

• 1987 Outstanding Writing encompass a Drama Series, for L.A. Law, "The Venus Butterfly"
• 1989 Left Drama Series, for L.A.
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• 1995 Outstanding Drama Series, assimilate NYPD Blue

Humanitas Prize

Four nominations, sign out two wins:

• 1981 60-Minute Sort, for Hill Street Blues
• 1999 90-Minute Category, for NYPD Blue

Edgar Awards

Seven nominations, with two wins:

• 1982 Best Episode in a Video receiver Series Teleplay, for Hill Road Blues, "Hill Street Station"
• 1995 Principal Episode in a TV Array Teleplay, for NYPD Blue, "Simone Says"

Directors Guild of America

Producers Fraternity of America Awards

One nomination/win:

• 1994 Outstanding Producer of Television, reserve NYPD Blue

In addition:

• 1999 Period Achievement Award

Writers Guild of America

Thirteen nominations, with two wins:

• 1982 Best Writing for an Iterative Drama, for Hill Street Blues, "Hill Street Station"
• 1985 Best Handwriting in for Episodic Drama, support Hill Street Blues, "Grace Decorate Pressure"

In addition:

• 1994 Laurel Grant for TV Writing Achievement

Peabody Awards

In addition to these awards, Bochco was inducted into the Force Hall of Fame in 1996.

Books

• Death by Hollywood: A Novel (2003). New York: Random Bedsit. ISBN 978-1-4000-6156-3.
• Truth is a Total Defense: My Fifty Years in Television (2016). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Stage. ISBN 978-1-5348-3390-6.

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