ABOUT the best entertainment to be had from television nowadays is hearing producers and actors try to palm off their various brands of vulgarity vérité as serious stuff, “daring” and “controversial” in its cultural implications.
The big talk now centers on N.Y.P.D. Blue, premiering September 21, in which ABC has dared to take on an R rating. This is necessary, explains producer Steven Bochco, because with so much slash and skin on the cable stations the networks must produce shows “a little more reflective of our society. . . . I’m not saying that language and nudity are a substitute for substance,” he reflects. “I am saying that, as an artist with a palette, those colors, judiciously used, can add greatly to the finished product.”
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