‘Homicide’ isn’t dead, it’s just moved to cable TV

You can kill a good TV show but not what it stands for. Not in the cable era you can’t. There are way too many networks and too many hours to fill; you can’t send guts and creativity on a 10-year holiday, the way network TV could 25 years ago.

“Homicide” took us deeper into the marshes of guilt and innocence than TV cop shows had ever done. Its death signified that when you’re talking about major-league prime time, we want law and order and lots of it. But on cable, we want things to delve deeper, to shine a flashlight into the basement of the soul and the sewers of bureaucracy.

Welcome to the New Cop Shows – “The Wire” and “The Shield.” The Buffalo News