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Michael Kozoll is an American screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for creating the police procedural television series Hill Street Blues along with Steven Bochco. Kozoll wrote for television programs including Delvecchio, Quincy, M.E., McCloud, Richie Brockelman, Private Eye and Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
May 9, 2014 · Created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll, “Hill Street Blues” earned eight Emmy Awards in its initial season alone, ultimately pulling a total of 98 nominations over the course of its...
Michael Kozoll. Writer • Producer. Writer Michael Kozoll is well known for his work on the police drama series "Hill Street Blues," alongside famed writer and producer Steven Bochco. The...
- It Was Influenced by A 1977 Documentary.
- Bruce Weitz Had An Aggressive Audition.
- Joe Spano Thought He Was Miscast.
- Barbara Bosson Was Bochco’s Wife, But Wasn’T Planning on Being A Series Regular.
- It Took Mike Post Two Hours to Write The Iconic Theme Song.
- The Pilot Tested poorly.
- They Had Historically Bad Season One Ratings.
- They Never Specified Where The Show Was Located, But It’S Probably Chicago.
- Plenty of Future Stars Made Early appearances.
- Sammy Davis Jr. Wanted on The Show.
THE POLICE TAPES (Alan & Susan Raymond, 1977) from Spectacle Theater on Vimeo. The show's creators looked to The Police Tapes, a 1977 documentary that chronicled a South Bronx police precinct during a particularly hostile time in New York City's history, for inspiration. NBC's then-president Fred Silverman was inspired to create a cop show in the f...
Bruce Weitz landed the role of undercover officer Mick Belker by playing the part. "I went to the audition dressed as how I thought the character should dress—and loud and pushy," Weitz recalled. "When I got into the room, I jumped up on [MTM co-founder] Grant Tinker's desk and went after his nose. I heard he said afterwards, 'There's no way I can'...
Joe Spano auditioned for the role of Officer Andrew Renko, but ended up playing Lieutenant Henry Goldblume. “I was always disappointed that I didn’t end up playing Renko,” Spano told Playboyin 1983. Spano also wasn't a fan of his character's penchant for bow ties, which he claimed was Michael Kozoll's idea. "I fought it all the way," he said. "I th...
Barbara Bosson played Fay, Captain Frank Furillo’s ex-wife, who was only supposed to appear in the first episode in order to “contextualize” the captain, according to Bochco. But when Silverman watched the episode, he asked, “She’s going to be a regular, right?”
The composer—who also wrote the themes for The Greatest American Hero, Magnum, P.I., The A-Team, NYPD Blue, and Law & Order—was instructed by Bochco to write something “antithetical” to the visuals. Post wanted to add more orchestration to the piano piece; Bochco disagreed. Post also spent four to five hours writing five minutes of new music for ea...
According to a network memo,among the many problems test audiences noted were that "the main characters were perceived as being not capable and having flawed personalities ... Audiences found the ending unsatisfying. There are too many loose ends ... 'Hill Street' did not come off as a real police station ... There was too much chaos in the station...
In its first season, Hill Street Blues show finished 87th out of 96 shows, making it the lowest-rated drama in television history to get a second season. Bochco credited the show’s renewal to two things: NBC being a last place network at the time, and the NBC sales department noticing that high-end advertiserswere buying commercial time during the ...
The exterior of the Maxwell Street police station in Chicago filled in for the fictitious Hill Street precinct for the opening credits and background footage. It was addedto the National Register of Historical Places in 1996 and is currently the University of Illinois at Chicago police department headquarters.
Don Cheadle, James Cromwell, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Robbins, Andy Garcia, Cuba Gooding Jr., Danny Glover, Frances McDormand, and Michael Richards all found early work on the series.
Unfortunately, it never happened. Sometime after Bochco wrote in a reference to the singer, Davis and Bochco ran into each other. Davis said he loved it and started jumpingup and down.
Hill Street Blues: Created by Steven Bochco, Michael Kozoll. With Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Warren, Bruce Weitz, James Sikking. The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct.
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Aug 24, 1986 · With co-producer Michael Kozoll, who subsequently left the show, Bochco created ''Hill Street Blues,'' the fast-moving series about life in an inner-city police station that became one of the...
May 8, 2014 · The show was created by Stephen Bochco and Michael Kozoll, two producers who had gotten bored writing for stodgy crime dramas like Ironside and McMillan and Wife. They tore up the rules of TV....
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