Ten Best Cop Shows EVER Honorable Mention: THE SHIELD DRAGNET SOUTHLAND CRACKER CRIME STORY Number Ten: MIAMI VICE Original Run: 1984-1990 Creator: Anthony Yerkovich, Andres Carranza Sure aspects of the show feel dated but it’s a time capsule look at the eighties...
I have never written a crime story that wasn't influenced, in some small part, by The Shield. From the whip crack of the pilot right through the brutal finale, Shawn Ryan's gang of LA cops was a veritable showcase of men and women who alternated seamlessly between...
When Tom Baker decided he was tired of wearing a long scarf and eating jelly babies, rumors spread that his replacement might be a woman. Baker fueled those speculations with the following comment:: “Well, you’re making an assumption that it’s going to be a man.”...
With the sheer volume of television stations and the number of shows they produce it’s close to impossible to keep up with it all unless you are a full time viewer and that’s ALL you do. Having a number of other things going on in my life there are shows that slip...
Michael Mann's HEAT is a kind of Love/Hate film. I enjoy the hell out of it, but find some of the secondary storylines distracting and make the film a tad too long. 20th Century Fox is now releasing a new edition they claim is truly what Michael Mann envisioned. In...
FORTITUDE Sky Looking at the cover of the DVD set made me think of Whiteout, a fun mystery set in Antarctica based on a graphic novel by Greg Rucka. Going in I was expecting a story set in a cold climate with a lot of outdoors stuff and while those are aspects of...
