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Do you remember the great TV police drama of the 1980s, «Hill Street Blues»?

Supremely and superbly character - driven, this film is a throwback to many of the best police dramas of the past.

The music fits the theme too, recalling sounds and tones from the old procedural police dramas of the sixties and seventies.

Not exact matches

OK, prepare to suspend your disbelief: The mystery - adventure drama is based loosely on Washington Irving's 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and follows the character of Ichabod Crane, who has woken up after sleeping for 250 years and is now partnered with police Lt. Abbie Mills in modern day Sleepy Hollow, N.Y..

When Michael Brown was shot by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9, it looked like Ferguson, Missouri, was going to serve as just one more stop on the national tour of this classic drama.

ABC's newest crime drama that follows the homicide detectives of the Detroit Police Department can't exactly surprise us with plot twists, or can it?

In a day of drama, Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium was fully evacuated after police and emergency services confirmed that a «suspect package» was found in the North West quadrant of the grounds.

The drama at the airport, in which no - one else was injured, came a day after police in London defused two car bombs in the centre of the capital.

David Hare's drama initially threatens to follow in the footsteps of «State of Play» or «House of Cards», or yet another police investigation drama that we've come to expect in the 9 pm viewing slot.

The senator's ordeal started after two suspects allegedly fingered him as giving them guns and hiring them to be his political thugs ahead of the 2019 general election.There was mild drama yesterday as the Nigeria Police arraigned the senator representing Kogi West senatorial district in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, before a Magistrate Court in Wuse 2, Abuja.

«The drama at the Press Conference convened by the IGP Investigative Panel and the IGP reveals the script being acted by the Police High Command, which is now obviously an arm of the Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Distinguished Melaye with his high sense of drama has obfuscated the real issue by his actions, depending on who you believe, jumping out of a police to save his life from tear gas attack or attempting to escape from lawful police custody.

The drama has even led to proxy fights between the police unions and United Federation of Teachers — which took the first major contract with the city, setting a precedent for all other unions that uniformed unions have rejected because it contains some years without raises.

«Although realism is an integral element to the success of a television drama set in a contemporary workplace, be it a hospital or police department, the requirements for dramatic effect demand a focus on the exceptional rather than the mundane,» the study authors wrote.

Slippery gangster dodges police - Person of interest visits island without lawmen's knowledge She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on

When Emmanuel Macron's parents found out that he had fallen in love with his drama teacher in 1994, they were desperate to avoid scandal and packed him A police officer name withheld has allegedly murdered his girlfriend Vida Bonsu, a female teacher of Kumasi Girls Senior High School at Konongo, Asante

She's Dating the Gangster is a 2014 Filipino teen romantic comedy - drama film based on the best Pop Fiction book of the same name originally published on Slippery gangster dodges police - Person of interest visits island without lawmen's knowledge

Earnest problem - drama about a Muslim police inspector in London investigating fellow cops» killing of a suspected terrorist.

Based on the best - selling novel by James Ellroy and directed by Curtis Hanson, this award - winning crime drama explores both the dark side of the Los Angeles police force and Southern California's criminal underbelly in the early»50s, when Hollywood was still seen as America's capital of sophistication, glitter, and glamour.

This comedy - drama is set in the small town of Shermer, Illinois, where his act of vandalism gets Robin Fleming thrown in jail by the two - man police force.

The first series of this police drama follows Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), a homicide detective with the Philadelphia Police Department who investigates unsolved crimes from recent times to decades - old police drama follows Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris), a homicide detective with the Philadelphia Police Department who investigates unsolved crimes from recent times to decades - old Police Department who investigates unsolved crimes from recent times to decades - old cases.

Within a year, she made her television debut as a female police detective in the pilot for a short - lived crime drama entitled Dog and Cat; in 1978, she landed the starring role in the made - for - TV movie Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold, appropriately playing a beautiful Southern girl who comes to Los Angeles in search of stardom.

Rescue Me is a daring, unflinching show — a worthy companion to FX's dark - hearted police drama «The Shield» — and it is unafraid to expose the not always pretty particulars of firehouse culture and the more fallible side of those we count on to save us.

And Brazilian director José Padilha should have been just the audacious director to tell the story: recently at the helm of the Netflix series Narcos, he made his name with Rio hostage documentary Bus 174 and galvanised the Berlin film festival with his thunderous 2008 Golden Bear winner, the favela police drama Elite Squad.

A police drama focusing on «cold cases» that have gone for years without a solution, brought out of the woodwork to solve, which may date back five to fifty years.

Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres.

Three years after «The Sudden Departure,» where two percent of the world's population disappeared suddenly, the townspeople of Mapleton struggle with life including Police Chief Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), who has to deal with mysterious happenings in town, his two rebelling teenaged children, as well as a cult called the Guilty Remnant that includes Laurie (Amy Brenneman), a self - proclaimed prophet named «Holy Wayne» (Paterson Joseph), Rev. Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston), and Mayor Lucy Warburton (Amanda Warren) in this drama series based on Tom Perrotta's novel of the same name.

He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy - comedy The Good Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison.

This is a major focus of Stronger, director David Gordon Green's gritty, performance - driven drama about Boston marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman, who was immortalized in the media as the dizzied man being wheeled out of the area with his legs blown off, and who later helped the police identify one of the bombers from his hospital bed.

He was in the BBC's adaptation of Ian McEwan's The Child in Time opposite Benedict Cumberbatch, crops up in Goodbye Christopher Robin, a film about AA Milne out this weekend, and stars in The Last Post, Peter Moffat's new Sunday night BBC drama about military police officers and their wives in Yemen in the 1960s.

Padilha, who shot to prominence with his gritty police crime tale Elite Squad — which won Berlin's Golden Bear in 2007 — will bring his research - based documentary background to bear as he did so successfully in both Elite Squad films, his searing documentary Bus 174 and, of course his brilliant Pablo Escobar Netflix drama Narcos.

However, what really elevates «The Night Of» beyond the typical crime drama is the superb writing by co-creators Richard Price and Steve Zaillian, which delivers a probing examination of the systemic problems in the U.S. criminal justice system (from the police, to the prisons, to the lawyers) and how one crime can affect the lives of not only the accused but the people connected to them as welOf» beyond the typical crime drama is the superb writing by co-creators Richard Price and Steve Zaillian, which delivers a probing examination of the systemic problems in the U.S. criminal justice system (from the police, to the prisons, to the lawyers) and how one crime can affect the lives of not only the accused but the people connected to them as welof the systemic problems in the U.S. criminal justice system (from the police, to the prisons, to the lawyers) and how one crime can affect the lives of not only the accused but the people connected to them as welof not only the accused but the people connected to them as well.

Some intriguing ideas are stranded by an overarching concept that severely strains credibility in this low - budget drama that takes place in a small town in northern California, where an exiled Afghan journalist (Dominic Rains) gets a job as a freelance crime reporter and settles with a local police officer (Melissa Leo)-- the mother of a friend — allowing him to experience firsthand the town's surprisingly extensive web of corruption and violence.

The writer - director hit the important superficial plot elements of any police crime drama, including Max and Jacob's clear disdain for the other side of the law, and their equal motivation to do their job to the best of their ability.

Following the success of 1971's Dirty Harry (a role The Duke turned down), Wayne set out to make his own modern Police dramas as the Western genre's peak had come and gone.

The film is a kind of variation on Chan's Police Story, also released in 1985 and another key film in the shift of HK action cinema from period epics to contemporary crime dramas.

Arresting elderly entertainers for historic sexual abuse now appears to be the primary function of the police, and here they are doing it again in Jack Thorne's new drama about veteran comic Paul Finchley.

«I had not thought of Jake as a down - and - dirty L.A. cop,» says Barden, adding that he watched Gyllenhaal's police officer drama «End of Watch» while casting «Prisoners.»

Filled with questions that can only be answered by the theory that he's in an alternate reality, Tyler becomes part of a procedural police drama whose distinguishing feature is its period setting.

Dito Montiel, chose Channing Tatum as the star for his drama about corrupt police and childhood secrets, The Son of No One, correctly.

It's directed by Robert Siodmak, who made more film noirs than any other director, and it is one of his darkest, a gangster drama seeped in shadows, corruption, and psychosis, with Victor Mature (in what I believe is his best noir role) a as Lt. Candella, an Italian - American police detective who takes the pursuit of small - time gangster Martin Rome (Richard Conte) personally.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?&raquof grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?&raquof George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?&raquof Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?&raquOF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?&raquof two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?&raquof a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?&raquof prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

I also have an edge of your seat thriller based on a Jim Shepard novel and a cop action / drama based on my father's time as a police officer in central Illinois in the 1970s.

Call it the son of The Shield; when a writer - producer from that intense police drama crafted a show about outlaw bikers, he was smart enough to cast his wife, Katey Sagal, as the brittle matriarch.

But soon after the humiliation of being turned down for a job on long - running low - rent British police drama «The Bill,» Bobbitt got a call from Michael Winterbottom, who was looking for a documentary cameraman to shoot his ensemble relationship drama «Wonderland.»

Winning the Screenplay award at this year's festival, the mouthful titled Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a pointed, jet black drama - cum - comedy about redemption, murder and the ignorance of a corrupt, Red State police force.

After David Ayer brought the world End of Watch, a visceral, captivating and very violent police drama, I was rather excited to see what he brought us next.

In the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) sponsored Best Drama category, Northern Irish based police investigations drama «The Fall» is nominated alongside the epic fantasy «Game of Thrones» and the historical action drama «Vikings» which is shot in co WicDrama category, Northern Irish based police investigations drama «The Fall» is nominated alongside the epic fantasy «Game of Thrones» and the historical action drama «Vikings» which is shot in co Wicdrama «The Fall» is nominated alongside the epic fantasy «Game of Thrones» and the historical action drama «Vikings» which is shot in co Wicdrama «Vikings» which is shot in co Wicklow.

On this episode, the GeekScholars host a spoiler - free discussion and review of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, a darkly quirky drama about a mother who goes to some unusual extremes to call attention to the local police that her daughter's murder remains unsolved.

Much of the conversation surrounding «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri» — the multiple - Golden - Globe - winning drama from Martin McDonagh about grieving mother Mildred Hayes's (Frances McDormand) message - by - billboard to the police, which roils the titular town — has centered on the redemption of Officer Dixon (Sam Rockwell).