"I want to do stuff that challenges folks and entertains folks, and I'm willing to take the risk that some people will not like what I do." That's an attitude that some say has changed the face of television, and it belongs to producer Steven Bochco,...

Although he wrote feature film screenplays early in his career, Steven Bochco has made his mark as the creator and producer of successful television series, thus having an impact upon a larger audience than most filmmakers can claim. With such...

Bochco was born in New York City into a Jewish family. His parents were both artistic, his mother a painter, his father a violinist. He was educated in Manhattan at the High School of Music and Art. In 1961, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of...

Hail, Steven Bochco -- "Commander in Chief's" new commander in chief. Rod Lurie, the film critic turned film director and screenwriter who created the series, is gone as show runner (aka, guy in charge), and Bochco has been given control of ABC's fantasy...

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The stars of Hollywood and Washington came out Tuesday to pay their respects to Jack Valenti, a man at home in the power structures of both cities.Five days after his death at 85, friends and family members honored Valenti at the Cathedral of Saint Matthew...

Emmy Award-winning writer Steven Bochco has become the latest Hollywood leader to embrace the Internet, teaming with a video site to produce a series of confessional short videos on such topics as "my first time" and "my weird family."The man behind such hits as "Hill...