Hollywood Flashback: “LA Law” Sets the Bar at the Emmys

Hollywood Flashback: “LA Law” Sets the Bar at the Emmys

“The History of Business Law Firms in Cidade dos Anjos” is the hollywood reporter Description of Steven Bochko’s New NBC Drama Series, The lawIn October 1986.

The show, which chronicles the lives of partners, associates and employees at a fictional Los Angeles law firm, was co-created by Bochko and former Los Angeles County Attorney Terri Louise Fisher, who served as a writer and producer. . Cagney and Lacey. Bochko has already created a hit for NBC Hill Street Sadnesswhich has won four consecutive Drama Series Emmy Awards and its success will continue The law. In 1987, the show received five Emmy Awards for its first season, including Outstanding Drama Series. The lawThe cast – Richard Dysart, Corbin Bernsen, Suzanne Day, Harry Hamlin, Jimmy Smits, Jill Eikenberry, Larry Drake, Michael Tucker and Blair Underwood, among others – also earned Emmy nominations, with Smits winning over the years. Dysart, Drake and guest star Alfre Woodard.

for eight seasons The law He earned 89 Emmy nominations and won 15 statuettes. After its fourth win for Best Drama Series in 1991, it was tied Hill Street Sadness For the highest number of wins in the category. This record has never been broken, but the future will show the west wing, accusations s Game of thrones he would also join the four-headed club.

Presumably it was the show’s crisp scripts. The law stood out from the rest: “The writing was slanted and cursive, a refinement of the lawyer’s field and the high and low tempo accompaniment,” he noted. THR In the October 1987 Magazine.

Scribe and executive producer David E. Kelly, who garnered 13 nominations and five wins for his work on the series, went on to create Emmy favorites. Ali McBeal s big little lies – paid tribute to his last rivals (coast of china s thirty) when accepting the Writers Cup in 1991, saying, “It is truly an honor to be nominated with you…We will miss seeing you on the air.” Three years later, The law He would also make his final bow.

The law took home best drama and best screenplay, THR reported on the second day of the 1987 Emmy Awards.

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This story first appeared in the separate August issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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