Actor Taurean Blacque, who reached a career zenith for his Emmy Award-nominated role as Detective Neal Washington on the 1980s crime drama Hill Street Blues, died Thursday at the age of 82, his son ...

Hill Street Blues rewrote the rules of television drama. Set inside an overworked urban precinct within an unnamed city, Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll's gritty series introduced a level of realism ...

Jen Vestuto is a TV Features Writer for Collider. A born and raised New Yorker, she started her career on set as a production assistant for shows like Law & Order: SVU and Person of Interest. In LA, ...

What was Hill Street Blues? Hill Street Blues was not the first police procedural. Premiering in 1981, Stephen Bochco’s series quickly changed how television series covered the subject forever. Rather ...

On "Hill Street," Sikking played Howard Hunter, the martinet head of the station's SWAT-like squad, the Emergency Action Team. Hunter was often the show's comic relief. Sikking, however, saw his ...

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It's easy to appreciate groundbreaking shows long after the fact, but it's often forgotten how difficult some of them were to get made in the first place. Network executives often like to play it safe ...

The cast of Hill Street Blues, the show that changed American TV. From left to right: Bruce Weitz, Michael Warren, Charles Haid, James B. Sikking That’s a big claim, but it’s true. The show centered ...

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Barbara Bosson, the Emmy-nominated actress who starred on the 1980s NBC police procedural "Hill Street Blues," died on Saturday. She was 83. Bosson's son Jesse Bochco announced her death in a post ...

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