When Are The Networks Gonna' Cool It With All This Violent Crime-Drama Junk? - Herbie J Pilato

According to The Hollywood Reporter HBO has partnered with Guillermo del Toro to adapt Corinne May Botz39s Nutshell Studies a Hitchcocklike drama about a 1950s smalltown housewife who becomes obsessed with solving brutal crimesI39m so friggin39 tired of all these overtlyviolent crime dramas that are polluting the airwavesLook amp8211 I love mysteries and adventure shows And I also enjoy a good police detective story just as much as the next guyBut come on manamp8230enough is enough with the offensive and abusive images that are presented on the new crime shows of todayColumbo McMillan and Wife McCloud Barnaby Jones and yes amp8211 Murder She Wroteamp8230not to mention the shortlived Ellery Queen and even shows like Magnum PI and so many more wonderful policedetective shows from the past all did it so much better than then the junk that invades the contemporary airwavesAnd again it all comes back to storytelling and character development with class distinction and TALENTViolent bloodsoaked scenes are easy ways out and apparently great stories and good characters are too much of a challenge to create produce and presentAnd how many times are we going to see the same exact interrogation scene that we39ve already seen a bazillion times on any number of the Law ampamp Order shows Person of Interest the CSI shows and even Blue Bloods which like the aforementioned Magnum PI stars Tom Selleck but this time as the head of a family of policeman Bloods beyond its dreadful title had so much potential But now it39s become just as violent and brutal as the other new crime drama showsIt39s disgusting is what it isJust tired of it all and the lack of true elegance in detective and police programming of yore is just apparently gone foreverThank heavens for networks like METV and Antenna TV both of which run plenty of firstrate top amp8211notch crime shows from the past like Cannon Kojak and It Takes A Thief among several othersAnd just as the sloganmotto goes for METV in particular quotThat39s the way ME likes itquotHerbie J Pilato is an actorwriterproducerexecutive who has worked for Syfy AampampE TLC Bravo The Discovery Channel Universal Warner Bros and Sony The author of a number of acclaimed classic TV tiein books The Bionic Book Life Story The Book of Life Goes On The Bewitched Book Bewitched Forever The Kung Fu Book of CaineThe Kung Fu Book of Wisdom and NBC ampamp ME My Life As A Page In A Book Herbie J is also the Founder and Executive Director for The Classic TV Preservation Society a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the gap between positive TV shows and education wwwClassicTVPSblogspotcom the Creative Director for Erie Street Entertainment a TV production company that is geared toward scififantasy and familyoriented material wwwErieStreetEntertainmentblogspotcom and the President of PopCulture Consultants an entertainment consulting firm wwwPopCultureConsultantsblogspotcom He appears frequently on TV in shows like the TV Guide Channel39s new series 100 Moments That Changed TV and Entertainment Tonight He has performed on daytime soaps like General Hospital and The Bold and The Beautiful as well as classic TV shows like The Golden Girls and Highway to Heaven Herbie Jamp8217s new book TWITCH UPON A STAR THE BEWITCHED LIFE AND CAREER OF ELIZABETEH MONTGOMERY will be published in November by Taylor Trade Publishing To preorder the book click on this link httpsrowmancomISBN9781589797499 andor for more information please email hjpilatoyahoocomRead all Herbie J39s MediaBizBloggers commentaries at Herbie J39s Classic TV CornerCheck us out on Facebook at MediaBizBloggerscomFollow our Twitter updates MediaBizBloggerThe opinions and points of view expressed in this commentary are exclusively the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaBizBloggerscom management or associated bloggers MediaBizBloggers is an open thought leadership platform and readers may share their comments and opinions in response to all commentaries

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