then we started on the language. we heard some 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. come on, line em up. they could use the nudity and the curse words to go deeper into the actual emotional burden of being a cop. i m an asshole. and it had this character, andy sipowicz. he is a raging alcoholic, racist, sexist, violent. hey! he created the tv anti-hero. you know, i go that great, that african-american george washington carver discovered the peanut. but can you provide names and addresses of these friends? you know, you re a racist scumbag. despite his flaws, despite his prejudices, i think people identified with his pain. i wish there was a way to say
r. there was not a lot of original programming for cable but they were airing movies and we needed to compete. if we didn t, we are were going to get swept out. 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.
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 curse words to go deeper into the actual emotional burden of being a cop. i m an asshole.
in 1990, 91, there was not a 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. 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
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