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Article: 'NYPD Blue' still scares away advertisers. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 31, 1994
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One sure sign of a TV show's success is usually the flood of copy-cat shows that get on the air the following season. So where are all the ``NYPD Blue'' clones?
Though ABC's trend-setting police drama was the most talked about new show of the 1993-94 TV season and has broken a record for Emmy nominations in its freshman year, nobody is copying it.
Only two new fall shows even get into the same subject area _ an ``insider's'' look at an urban police precinct: Fox's ``New York Undercover'' and CBS's ``Under Suspicion.'' But the Fox show is a sort of ``hip hop cops'' hour with the gritty trademark look of its producers, who also make NBC's ``Law & Order,'' and the CBS show ...
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October 4, 1993 ;
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... ... out to do with this show: Credible adult stories ... third episode of ``NYPD Blue'' reveals (10 p ... Dateline NBC''), ``NYPD Blue'' was seen by an ... importantly for the show's long-term survival, ``NYPD Blue'' is No. 1 in the ...
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