In 1982, a Yale writing teacher named David Milch wrote a script for Hill Street Blues, a police procedural that Steven Bochco had cocreated the previous year. The script sold, and Milch joined the staff, where he soon became executive producer and began a celebrated career as a creator, writer and producer of TV dramas. He created four other series with Bochco. This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the premiere of their most successful collaboration, ABC’s NYPD Blue. In its twelve-year run, that multifaceted drama about New York City homicide detectives won twenty Emmy Awards, two of which went to Milch for writing. (He’d won his first in 1983 on Hill Street Blues.)
Much of the heat and raw material Milch drew upon stemmed from…
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