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Article: NYPD Blue to end 12-year run
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- The Press
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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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, emphasising the b-word
with a crotch-grabbing gesture.
NYPD Blue-- which ends its 12-year run on 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 sexuality
that included bare skin and an emotionally raw, adult approach to ...