By One of the most ground-breaking Emmy-winning series of all time, “Homicide: Life on the Street,” has found a streaming home.
Last month came word from David Simon, whose book inspired the NBC cop drama, that music rights issues and clearance costs involving the series had been secured.
An NBCUniversal confirmed they were working on clearances and had been remastering the series to HD and 4K (for the first time), with original producers Tom Fontana, Barry Levinson and Gail Mutrux putting in the effort to get it done.
Now, NBCUniversal is reporting that Peacock will be the home of the series and will launch it on August 19th with all seven seasons and 122 episodes. The series-wrapping 2000 movie “Homicide: The Movie” will also be available.
Created by Paul Attanasio, the series ran for seven seasons from 1993-1999 and chronicled the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Unit and famously avoided so many tropes of cop shows that came before.
Containing a pervasive sense of bleak realism, it was shot on location with mostly hand-held cameras and could interweave multiple storylines within a single episode as opposed to a ‘single case of the week’.
The series cast included Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Yaphet Kotto, Clark Johnson, Melissa Leo, Michelle Forbes, Ned Beatty, Reed Diamond, Kyle Secor, Jon Polito, Željko Ivanek and Giancarlo Esposito.
Source: Vulture
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