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      • When Barry Levinson, director of Diner (1982) and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), approached writer and producer Tom Fontana – who had a background in television and theatre – to help him bring the book to the screen, he told him he wanted to do a cop show with no car chases and gun battles.
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  3. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhy cop show Homicide: Life on the Street was revolutionary - BBC

    When Barry Levinson, director of Diner (1982) and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), approached writer and producer Tom Fontana – who had a background in television and theatre – to help him bring the...

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  4. www.nytimes.com › 2023/05/11 › artsWhen ‘Homicide’ Hit Its Stride - The New York Times

    May 11, 2023 · The influential crime drama debuted 30 years ago. Here, the creators and stars reflect on its legacy and on an early episode that served notice that it was a different sort of cop show.

  5. www.msn.com › en-us › tvWhy Homicide: Life On the Street is a criminally overlooked ...

    Levinson brought in Tom Fontana, a writer and producer on the hospital drama St Elsewhere. “I want to do a cop show with no gun battles, with no car chases,” Levinson said.

  6. www.indiewire.com › features › generalWhy Barry Levinson Brought True Crime to TV (And Not to Film)

    Jan 26, 2016 · There were two shows in the 1990s that totally changed the way we think about telling stories about crime on television, and Barry Levinson helped make both of them. Digging into the realities...

  7. www.criminalelement.com › first-in-series-homicideFirst in Series: Homicide: Life on the Street - Criminal Element

    Feb 13, 2017 · NBC played up that filmmaker Barry Levinson was a driving force behind the show, and this did impress me. He’d made films I’d liked such as Diner , Tin Men , and The Natural , and as a Baltimore native who’d made good films set in the city, his involvement suggested that the Baltimore-set production might be something other than a ...

  8. theconversation.com › homicide-life-on-the-streets‘Homicide: Life on the Streets’ laid the groundwork for Peak ...

    Aug 30, 2024 · The Baltimore-born Levinson wanted to capture the city in all of its gritty glory, with shots suffused with trails of cigarette smoke, crumbling row houses and the minutiae of cops’ day-to-day...

  9. www.npr.org › 2024/08/16 › g-s1-17168'Homicide: Life on the Streets' is streaming, at last : NPR

    Aug 16, 2024 · That cop show, set in Baltimore, ran on NBC from 1993 to 1999. Its executive producers were Tom Fontana from "St. Elsewhere" and film director Barry Levinson.