Stephen J. Cannell, Farewell
Oct. 1st, 2010 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomSadness. Legendary TV writer and producer Stephen J. Cannell has passed away at the age of 69.
He was involved with an almost ridiculous number of shows, especially Baretta, The Rockford Files, Adam-12, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Silk Stalkings, Wiseguy, Renegade, The Black Sheep Squadron, and The Commish. Dude knew how to make a popular show, and how to write characters you cared about. Farewell, good scribe.
He was involved with an almost ridiculous number of shows, especially Baretta, The Rockford Files, Adam-12, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Silk Stalkings, Wiseguy, Renegade, The Black Sheep Squadron, and The Commish. Dude knew how to make a popular show, and how to write characters you cared about. Farewell, good scribe.
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Date: 2010-10-02 02:02 am (UTC)The Greatest American Hero, one of my all-time favorite shows.
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Date: 2010-10-02 02:03 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-02 03:31 am (UTC)I haven't watched TV in years but Stephen Cannell was a name I knew immediately. I remember liking his shows a lot. Greatest American Hero, Rockford Files and many others I just loved them.
A great artist he will be missed.
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Date: 2010-10-02 06:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-02 12:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-10-02 11:58 pm (UTC)Few of his shows were high art. But most were just plain fun, and The Rockford Files and Wiseguy came close to defining their genres.
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Date: 2010-10-05 12:31 am (UTC)Sorry to hear about this, he wasn't Shakespeare but with few exceptions TV doesn't want Shakespeare, they want escapist entertainment, and Cannell was pretty good at that.