In the wake of André Braugher’s passing, Homicide: Life on the Street writer David Simon offered some encouraging news for fans regarding the police procedural’s future on a streaming platform.
Simon, who wrote the book “Homicide: A Year On the Killing Streets” that served as the basis for the NBC series, wrote on X that he’s “been informed by a reliable source that NBC/Universal is at last attempting, along with Fremantle on the overseas rights, to clear music rights on #Homicide for eventual streaming.”I have been informed by a reliable source that NBC/Universal is at last attempting, along with Fremantle on the overseas rights, to clear music rights on #Homicide for eventual streaming.
Lot of work to do achieve that, however, I am also told. Andre alone ought to rate such. “Lots of work to do [sic] achieve that, however, I am also told.
Andre alone ought to rate such.” The NBC series followed a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department. It ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999.
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