Robbery Homicide Division

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Robbery Homicide Division

Sgt. Simms (Barry Shabaka Henley) & Lt. Cole (Tom Sizemore) "A Life of Its Own"
Genre Drama
Creator(s) Barry Schindel
Starring Tom Sizemore
David Cubitt
Klea Scott
Barry Shabaka Henley
Michael Paul Chan
Country of origin USA
No. of episodes 13
Production
Running time 1 hour per episode
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run 2002-09-27 – 2003-04-21

Robbery Homicide Division (RHD) was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with famed executive producer Michael Mann.

The show took an intense, no-nonsense look at the present-day Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division. Lt. Cole is the driven chief detective of a squad that is dedicated to solving some of the worst crimes the city has to offer.

In April 2002, Schindel, who wrote the pilot episode and created the show, left to focus on his duties at NBC's Law & Order. Frank Spotnitz joined the show as an executive producer in May after The X-Files ended its nine-season run and then left in October reported because he decided that it "was not creatively the show that he wanted to be working on."[1]

Thematically, the show was very reminiscent of Mann's film, Heat (1995) in that it also dealt with a driven cop working the Robbery-Homicide Division leading a multi-ethnic squad. Stylistically, Mann has said that RHD was a chance to check out some of the high-definition digital cameras he would later employ to much greater effect on Collateral (2004) and Miami Vice (2006).

Contents

[edit] RHD Cast

[edit] Episodes

The show debuted on Friday at 10/9c to an anemic 8.41 million viewers. CBS gave RHD two chances to capture a wider audience by airing two episodes on Saturday night. The first tryout was unsuccessful, but the second Saturday airing on Dec. 7, 2002 did capture a larger audience; garnering a 6.0 household rating, while its lead-in The District received a 4.3 in households. On average, the show drew 7.12 million viewers an episode.

Although RHD was critically acclaimed, Law & Order: SVU had better ratings in the same time slot. CBS placed the show on hiatus after the December 7th episode. The series was cancelled after ten episodes. Mann told Variety magazine, "I guess maybe the show never found its audience."[2]

The remaining three unaired episodes premiered on the USA Network in April 2003.

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 Code Name Writer(s) Director Premiere
1 E3801/101 A Life of Its Own Barry Schindel Stephen Gyllenhaal 2002-09-27 CBS
2 E3802/102 Mini-Mall Todd A. Kessler Fred Keller 2002-10-04 CBS
3 E3803/103 2028 (a.k.a. Internet Sex) Jan Oxenberg, Philippe Browning, Frank Spotnitz, Todd A. Kessler D.J. Caruso 2002-10-11 CBS
4 E3807/105 Free and Clear Vince Gilligan D.J. Caruso 2002-10-18 CBS
5 E3805/106 Alton Davis Redux Carter Harris Rod Hardy 2002-10-25 CBS
6 E3806/107 In/Famous Frank Spotnitz, Jan Oxenberg Paul Michael Glaser 2002-11-01 CBS
7 E3804/104 City of Strivers (a.k.a. Defense Lawyer) Jan Oxenberg Rod Hardy 2002-11-08 CBS
8 E3808/108 Wild Ride (a.k.a. Zero Disrespect) Todd A. Kessler Nick Gomez 2002-11-15 CBS
9 E3810/109 Life Is Dust Todd A. Kessler, Sean Jablonski Mario Van Peebles 2002-11-30 CBS
10 E3811/110 Had Todd A. Kessler, Gustave Reininger, Glenn Kessler Paul Michael Glaser 2002-12-07 CBS
11 E3812/111 Hellbound Train Jan Oxenberg Ami Canaan Mann CBS
12 E3809/112 Vamonos, Chica Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, Sean Whitesell Bill Duke CBS
13 E3814/113 Absolute Perfection David O. Sosna Paul Michael Glaser CBS

[edit] Trivia

  • Alongside Jack Webb's Dragnet (1951), this is considered by many to be the most accurate TV show about the activities of the Los Angeles Police Department.
  • There were several technical advisors who worked on the show: Chic Daniel, an LAPD living legend who served more than twenty years on SWAT; Robert Deamer, a specialist of gang enforcement who is one of the most decorated veteran of Special Enforcement Unit (ex-C.R.A.S.H.); and Lieutenant Todd Reinhold, an actual squad leader of Special Weapons And Tactics.
  • The series was originally titled "Metro" which was the division where the show was originally going to be set. Then, the title was changed to "RHD/LA" which was used for the fall schedule announcement. CBS ordered the final title believing that people would be confused about what "RHD" stood for.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Schneider, Michael. "Spotnitz transfers out of 'Robbery Homicide'", Variety, October 4, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-2-08.
  2. ^ Adalian, Josef. "Eye closes 'RHD' file", Variety, December 10, 2002. Retrieved on 2007-2-08.

[edit] External links

RHD Reviews

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