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By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The
law enforcement officers of "Cop
Rock" burst into song. In "Twin
Peaks," they guzzle coffee, speak
in hyperbole and covet cherry pie.
is ABC being weird simply for
the sake of being weird? Has TV
gotten so predictable that the only
way to stand out is to be completely
off the wall?
Not if you ask "Cop Rock"
creator Steven Bochco or "Twin
Peaks" executive producer Mark
Frost.
"I think there's a real trap in trying
to create programming that is
simply going to be scarier or more
out there than the next guy's program,"
Bochco told TV columnists
during a weekend session of
ABC's summer press tour.
And no, Frost said, "Twin
Peaks" was not trying to pull a fast
one on its audience by being
confusing.
"I think that's ascribing some
pretty terrible character traits to
us," Frost said. "I don't think we'd
give up two years of our lives to
play a joke on the American
public."
But the questions asked of
Bochco and Frost during separate
sessions at the Century Plaza hotel
centered on whether these two
shows weren't just a little too out
there for the American public.
"Cop Rock" is ABC's newest
venture into the realm of weird TV
and makes its debut in the fall.
The pilot, with music by Randy
Newman, has been screened for
TV critics and affiliated stations of
ABC.
The affiliates didn't quite know
what to make of the first installment,
which contained a jury belting
out a guilty verdict in choir
robes, a junkie selling her baby for
a fix and a police officer who resolves
a botched attempt to arrest a
cop-killer by simply murdering
him.
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portion of the audience walked out
during the "Cop Rock" screening.
Several complained to Bochco
? the mastermind of hits such as
"Hill Street Blues" and "L.A.
Law" ? that "Cop Rock"
wouldn't play in Peoria.
'Twin Peaks," by Frost and film
director David Lynch, premiered
as a spring replacement series in
April and almost immediately became
one of the most talked-about
and written-about shows in television
history.
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Northwest lumber town included
the murder of homecoming queen
Laura Palmer, a dwarf who spoke
backwards in a dream sequence,
lots of talk about coffee and junk
food, and enough plot twists to induce
motion sickness.
When the series ended this season
without solving the murder of
beauty queen Palmer, audiences
were incensed.
"Twin Peaks" will repeat all
eight original episodes beginning
Aug. 5. Its fall season begins Sunday,
Sept. 30, with a two-hour special,
after which the series moves
to a new time slot, 10 p.m.
Saturday.
Frost, in keeping with the
show's tone, was humorously
vague about what will happen next
season.
He hedged about when, or how,
Palmer's murderer will be
identified.
Coffee-loving FBI agent Dale
Cooper, played by Kyle MacLachlan,
will remain in Twin Peaks, investigating
other crimes besides
Palmer's killing, Frost said.
Obviously, Cooper survives the
season-ending shooting by a mysterious
gunperson, Frost said.
Bochco gave away a few plot
tidbits for "Cop Rock": The murdering
police officer will be indicted,
and actress Barbara Bosson
(also Bochco's wife) will undergo
cosmetic surgery as the fictional
and corrupt mayor of Los Angeles.
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