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** Corrine Mackey is played by the creator's wife.

* [[Stunt Casting]]: Glenn Close and Anthony Anderson in Season Four, Forrest Whitaker in Season Five, and Franka Potente in Season Six.

* [[Typecasting]]: Subverted; the series helped destroy the public image of Michael Chiklis as the stern but lovable father figure that had been hung around his neck since his early 90s series ''The Commish'' ended.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Vic Mackey was originally conceived as a veteran police officer in his late 50s, with Shawn Ryan name-checking the actor Harrison Ford as far as his original vision of what Vic would be like (in other words, Harrison Ford playing a villain). Claudette was a male character whose gender was flipped when they couldn't find a male actor to play the role.

*** The second half of the season was impacted due to Walt Goggins appearing in the film ''Miracle at St. Anna''; to allow Goggins to do both projects, Shane was turned into a wanted fugitive (which meant that they could film Goggins' scenes within a relative short time).

* [[Writer Revolt]]: Julien Lowe was turned "straight" as a condition for Michael Jace (who played Julian) resigning for the remainder of the show's run (he was only under contract for a set number of episodes in Season One). Sadly, when fans reacted negatively to him suddenly being cured of his gayness, the character was effectively [[Demoted to Extra]] for the rest of the series, save for Season Seven (where he was given a spotlight episode towards the end of the series run).