So that means that Phat Farm and Naughty by Naturewear are out and Emporio Armani, Banana Republic and Tommy Hilfiger are in. "The characters have grown up a bit," he says. This season, he says, he's trying to give the stars a less trendy, more mature look. He recently conducted an interview by cellular phone from a shop on 145th Street in Harlem during one of those scouting expeditions. The search takes him all over, from Brooklyn to New Jersey. "I spend a lot of time on the street, watching what kids are wearing," he says. Owings's job to find the gear worn by the show's stars. The baggy pants and sweatshirts favored by Williams and Torres invest the show with a street flavor that the show's producers feel is essential to its acceptance by its fans. "Clothes are a key part of this show, just as is the music," says Richard Owings, the show's costume designer. "New York Undercover" is also about fashion. "It's not just a question of entertainment," he says. Mtume says that he sees the nightclub segments as a way of "reintroducing" older artists that many younger viewers might be unaware of even new artists are asked to perform classic songs.
(The club's owner and namesake is played by Gladys Knight.) Guests have ranged from Al Green, James Brown and Teddy Pendergrass to Brandy, D'Angelo and S.W.V. The show also uses Natalie's, a smoky nightclub where the young detectives hang out after work hours, as a venue for presenting some of the biggest names old and new in black pop. "Music must address the look and feel of the show," Mr. Mtume, who composes roughly 20 minutes of music for each episode, says he tries to create a kind of "tapestry" in which music is part of the texture of the show. Wolf worked on "Miami Vice" for three years, though he plays down the similarities). This integration of music and visuals is typical, and a reason the show has been called "Manhattan Vice." (Mr. This season's premiere opens with the cold-blooded murder of a female biker and her daughter to the driving beat of Lenny Kravitz's "Are You Gonna Go My Way." In the teaser for a recent show, George Clinton's funk classic "Atomic Dog" pounds on the soundtrack while a pit bull savagely attacks and kills a knife-wielding robber outside a brick tenement. Throw in some of the hippest music on television since "Miami Vice" (ignoring "The Arsenio Hall Show," of course) and Fox's appeal to a young, urban viewership, and no wonder there's so much talk about "New York Undercover." But hype aside, what do the ratings show? In its first season and a half, according to Nielsen Media Research, the show has averaged a 7.4 rating and an 11 share, meaning that its viewership is roughly one-third that of "Seinfeld."Įach episode of "New York Undercover" opens with what James Mtume, the show's composer, calls a "shortform video." roughly two minutes long, the teaser sets up the episode and helps define the show's visual and musical style. A developing romance between Moreno and Torres may well add a little spice. The addition of a fourth character, says Mr. The three were joined this season by Lauren Velez (Nina Moreno), who is also Puerto Rican. Virginia Cooper), who is white, plays the young detectives' tough-talking boss. DeLorenzo have wasted no time getting perfectly on target," he wrote shortly after the show's premiere. O'Connor, writing in The New York Times, called the Torres and Williams characters the strength of the show. Wolf, "on the same street in the Bronx," so the street smarts they bring to their characters were come by honestly. Williams), who is black, and his partner, Michael DeLorenzo (Eddie Torres), who is Puerto Rican, grew up, says Mr. We felt there was a huge minority audience out there that did not have a show to identify with," says Mr. So what's the story here? It begins with the programming savvy of the show's co-executive producer, Dick Wolf, who also produces NBC's "Law and Order." He was willing to bet that the timing was right for a gritty, primetime drama with a multicultural cast and a hip-hop beat, even if it competed in the same time slot (Thursday, 9 P.M.) with an industry heavyweight, "Seinfeld." Entertainment Weekly, in its fall preview issue, called it "TV's funkiest copy show." Last month, midway through the show's second season, Rolling Stone magazine declared it "a genuine underground hit."
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THE buzz about Fox's buddy-cop series "New York Undercover" keeps getting louder, like the blare of an oncoming boom box.
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