HBO, Bochco part ways

HBO’s partnership with veteran producer Steven Bochco is breaking up. The pay cable network has announced it is not moving forward with Bochco’s proposed “Marriage” series, a drama centering on a married New York City couple and set entirely in their bedroom.

Executives at the network said they didn’t feel the bedroom-only setting could be sustained for multiple episodes.

Bochco, meanwhile, is developing something with which he’s had much more success: a new police drama. The co-creator of “NYPD Blue” and “Hill Street Blues” declined to provide specifics on the project, which is targeted for fall 2004 on ABC.

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Greg Braxton