Posted on Mon, Jun. 03, 2002
Philadelphia Daily News
Ellen Gray | Hacked off
CBS' Hack, the first network drama ever to be filmed in Philadelphia, hasn't even hit the airwaves and someone's already making fun of the name.
Asked last week about TV's current crime-fighting wave, Law & Order producer Dick Wolf didn't mince words.
"Television eats its young," he said. "Whenever anything is successful, it's send in the clones...and the clones never work."
(This from the guy who's spun off Law & Order not once but twice, who's remaking Dragnet and whose next project, a summer documentary series called Crime & Punishment, uses L&O's trademark touches.)
Not that Wolf's worried. "I have branded shows," Wolf told reporters, adding that he expects CBS' CSI: Miami to do well, "because it's branded."
Not so lucky in Wolf's eyes is the David Morse drama about a disgraced cop turned cabdriver.
"What's Hack? You've got to educate millions of people out there that you cannot miss Hack on Fridays at 9. What's Hack?"
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