The recent cancellation--after only two episodes were aired--of Viva Laughlin, a CBS-TV series about casino-owning that was executive-produced in part by actor Hugh Jackman, can’t help but bring back to mind an ABC-TV experiment, 1990’s Cop Rock. Like Laughlin, that earlier program, conceived by Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue), also asked its cast members, police and crooks alike, to periodically launch into musical numbers. Their subject matter ranged from robberies and homicide to the quotidian functions of law enforcement. Looking back, it seems amazing that any competent network exec could have green-lit such a weird endeavor, but we found a few Cop Rock clips on YouTube (see here, here, and here) to remind everyone of the results.
And you thought American television was bad now ...
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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2 comments:
It was actually CBS who showed that train wreck
Thanks for pointing out the error, Bruce. It has now been fixed in the post.
Cheers
Jeff
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