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{{quote|"''You go when you're supposed to go, and everything else is homicide."''}}
Before ''[[The Wire]]'' - hell, even before ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' - there was '''''Homicide: Life on the Street'''''. Based on the factual book ''Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets'' by journalist [[David Simon]], the series charted the lives of a team of homicide detectives in Baltimore, Maryland, both on and off the clock. The show actually hung under the threat of cancellation after the first, but two Emmy nominations and the popularity of fellow soapy police show ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' got it renewed for a second season of just four episodes, making it the shortest season ever commissioned by a US network.
Over time, the show managed to build a comfortable - if not spectacular - audience, and traded in several of the older, less conventionally attractive cast members for young studs. Still, the series continued to achieve critical acclaim for what was then considered to be a realistic look at police life, with cases going unsolved, killers getting off the hook and officers having very real character flaws. It finished after seven seasons in 1999, with a TV movie wrapping up the remaining plot threads in 2000. It is generally considered to be the high water mark for [[Police Procedural]] shows, at least until [[David Simon]] returned with another Baltimore-based cop show, HBO's ''[[The Wire]]''.
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