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Tom Shales: How Steven Bochco Cut the Bull and Reinvented the Cop Show
By Tom Shales | April 3, 2018 @ 5:47 PM

Longtime television critic explains how honesty was crucial to everything Bochco did

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Tom Shales

Tom Shales served as TV critic of The Washington Post for 25 years, winning the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1989. Shales also spent two decades reviewing movies for NPR's "Morning Edition" and is the coauthor of two best-sellers: "Live from New York," on "Saturday Night Live," and "Those Guys Have All the Fun," on ESPN.