Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is an American television producer and writer. He has been involved in a number of popular hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue. is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NYPD Blue was an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ...

Biography

Bochco was born in New York City into a Jewish family. His parents were both artistic, his mother a painter, his father a violinist. He was educated in Manhattan at the High School of Music and Art. In 1961, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (after merging with the Mellon Institute in 1967 known as Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh to study playwriting and theater. He graduated with a BFA in Theater in 1966, having also had an MCA Writing Fellowship. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. ... The Mellon Institute combined with the Carnegie Institute of Technology to form todays Carnegie Mellon University. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. ... “Pittsburgh” redirects here. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle &#8212... The Bachelor of Fine Arts, usually abbreviated BFA, is the standard undergraduate degree for students seeking a professional education in the visual or performing arts. ...

He went to work for Universal Studios as a writer and then story editor on Ironside, Columbo, McMillan and Wife and the flops Griff, Delvecchio and The Invisible Man. He wrote the screenplay for the 1968 TV movie The Counterfeit Killer and worked on Silent Running (1972) and Double Indemnity (1973). He left Universal in 1978 to go to MTM Enterprises where he had greater scope for producing. This article is about the American media conglomerate. ... Ironside (originally broadcast under the name A Man Called Ironside in the United Kingdom) was a Universal television series which ran on NBC from March 28, 1967 to January 16, 1975. ... Columbo is an American crime fiction TV series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. ... McMillan & Wife was a lighthearted American crime drama television series that aired on NBC from September 17th, 1971 to April 24th, 1977. ... For other uses, see Silent Running (disambiguation). ... The 1990s MTM logo. ...

He achieved major success for NBC with the police drama Hill Street Blues. It ran from 1981 to 1987 and Bochco was credited as co-creator and also wrote and produced. Despite critical acclaim and awards the series was never very lucrative. Bochco was fired from MTM in 1985 following the failure of his (1983) Bay City Blues baseball project. This article is about the television network. ... Hill Street Blues was a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. ...

Bochco moved to Twentieth Century Fox (which ironically now owns the MTM library) where he made as creator and executive producer, L.A. Law (1986-1994), first aired on NBC. In 1987 Bochco created the half-hour dramedy Hooperman which starred John Ritter and was cancelled after two seasons, despite Bochco offering to take over direct day-to-day control of a third season. Twentieth (20th) Century Fox Film Corporation (known from 1935 to 1985 as Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation) is one of the six major American film studios. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Dramedy, a portmanteau of drama and comedy, is a genre of movies and television in which the lines between these very different genres were blurred. ... Hooperman was an ABC television series starring John Ritter that had a two-year run from 1987 to 1988. ... This article is about the American actor. ...

He was given a lucrative deal with ABC in 1987 to create and executive-produce ten new TV series, forming 'Steven Bochco Productions'. From this deal came Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989-1993) and the 1990 musical flop Cop Rock, which notoriously combined straight police drama with live-action Broadway singing and dancing. It was one of his most high-profile failures. The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993), is a television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a brilliant teenage doctor who was also faced with the problems of being a normal teenager, despite having graduated from Princeton University at age 10[1]. The show was set in Los Angeles, California... Cop Rock was a short-lived Steven Bochco television series on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1990. ...

After a lull he came back with the controversial, by network standards, NYPD Blue (1993-2005) with David Milch. He created the show with the express intention of changing the nature of network one-hour drama to compete with the more adult fare broadcast on cable networks. Other projects in this period that failed to take off include Murder One (1995-1997); Brooklyn South (1997); City of Angels (2000), Philly (2001), and Over There (2005). All four shows failed to match Bochco's earlier success though "Murder One" and "Over There" garnered critical praise and have developed cult followings. NYPD Blue was an Emmy Award-winning hour long-running American television police drama set in New York City. ... David S. Milch (March 23, 1945, Buffalo, New York) is an American television writer and producer. ... Murder One was a television series first aired on the ABC network in the United States in 1995. ... Brooklyn South was a short-lived American television police drama. ... City Of Angels, a television show which ran from January-December of 2000, was network televisions first predominantly black medical drama. ... Television series created by Steven Bochco focusing on a divorce lawyer. ... Over There was an action / drama / war television series that aired on the FX network. ...

In 2005, Bochco took charge of Commander in Chief (2005-2006) which was the creation of Rod Lurie and brought in a new writing team. However, in Spring 2006, he left the show because of conflicts with ABC, and shortly afterward the program was cancelled. Bochco described his experience on the show as "horrible" [1]. Bochco has completed a pilot ABC show, Hollis and Rae, and is said to be developing a baseball drama and another legal drama for ABC in partnership with Chris Gerolmo. Yet another legal drama entitled 'Raising the Bar' is in production for TNT, this time in partnership with David Feige[2]. It was announced in March 2007 that he has taken his first steps into internet tv with the 44-episode "Cafe Confidential", each episode being 60-seconds of unscripted 'confessions' by members of the public. According to an interview with Bochco published in September 2007 he is now winding down his involvement with network television, feeling that his tastes and current fashions in tv drama no longer coincide [3]. It has been suggested that List of characters in Commander in Chief be merged into this article or section. ... Rod Lurie (born 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and former film critic. ... Chris Gerolmo is an American writer, director and singer best known for writing the film Mississippi Burning and co-creating the FX Networks military drama series Over There. ... Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. ... David Feige is an American lawyer, legal commentator, and author. ...

His impact on the nature of American primetime network television drama is considerable: prior to Hill Street Blues it was rare for American straight drama shows to have story arcs, i.e. several stories running over many episodes (with the exception of primetime soaps such as Dallas). It was also rare to have a large regular cast. The structure of the modern 'ensemble' television drama comes from Bochco who many regard as having changed the 'language' of television drama. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Southfork Ranch, home of the Ewing family The original cast of Dallas. ...

Family

He married actress Barbara Bosson in 1969. They had two children before divorcing in 1997. He is currently married to Dayna Kalins (m. August 12, 2000). Barbara Bosson (born November 1, 1939 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American actress who has starred on television and in film. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...

Awards

Emmy Awards

• 1981 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1981 Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues, "Hill Street Station" (premiere episode)
• 1982 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1982 Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues, "Freedom's Last Stand"
• 1983 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1984 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1987 Outstanding Drama Series, for L.A. Law
• 1987 Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, for L.A. Law, "The Venus Butterfly"
• 1989 Outstanding Drama Series, for L.A. Law
• 1995 Outstanding Drama Series, for NYPD Blue

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Humanitas Prize

• 1981 60-minute Category, for Hill Street Blues
• 1999 90-Minute Category, for NYPD Blue

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Edgar Awards

• 1982 Best Episode in a TV Series Teleplay, for Hill Street Blues, "Hill Street Station"
• 1995 Best Episode in a TV Series Teleplay, for NYPD Blue, "Simone Says"

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Directors Guild of America

• 1999 Diversity Award

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Writers Guild of America

• 1994 Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement

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Bibliography

• Death by Hollywood (2003)

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External links

• Steven Bochco at the Internet Movie Database
• Bio
• Bochco video interviews produced by The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences