Article: Feeling blue: `NYPD Blue' ends after 12 years

LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer
AP Worldstream
02-25-2005
Dateline: LOS ANGELES
Sure, the nudity was startling. But the proof that "NYPD Blue" would be a bold and unsettling new force on TV was police Detective Andy Sipowicz's snarled insult.

"Ipso this, you pissy little -----," he told an attorney spouting legalisms at him in the 1993 debut episode, emphasizing the b-word with a crotch-grabbing gesture.

"NYPD Blue" _ which ends its 12-year run March 1 _ had no intention of being polite. Building on creator Steven Bochco's "Hill Street Blues," it was an in-your-face saga of cops whose lives were as troubled as the streets they protected.

The new drama went a step _ a leap _ beyond with frank ...

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