Andre Braugher and Kyle Secor in ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’
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One of the more critically acclaimed dramas of the past 30 years has at last found a streaming home.
Starting Aug. 19, Peacock will feature Homicide: Life on the Street. All seven seasons and 122 episodes of the former NBC show, as well as the series-wrapping Homicide: The Movie from 2000, will be available, remastered for HD and 4K viewing.
Homicide was based on David Simon’s book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and created by Paul Attanasio; Tom Fontana was the showrunner and executive produced with Barry Levinson, Henry Bromell and Jim Finnerty. The series followed detectives in Baltimore’s homicide unit and was praised for its acting and a more realistic depiction of detective work — including some cases that don’t get solved — than on many other network crime dramas.
Over the show’s seven seasons, the cast featured Andre Braugher — who won his first Emmy 1998 for playing Detective Frank Pembleton — Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo, Giancarlo Esposito, Daniel Baldwin, Jon Polito, Clark Johnson, Kyle Secor, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Peter Gerety, Isabella Hofmann, Toni Lewis, Michael Michele, Max Perlich, Jon Seda and Callie Thorne.
The series had several crossovers with NBC’s Law & Order franchise, and Belzer would continue his character of Detective John Munch on Law & Order: SVU for more than a decade after Homicide ended.
Simon, who worked as a writer and producer on the series, hinted at a streaming announcement in June: “Word is that NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life on the Street to a streaming platform,” Simon wrote on X. “Andre, Richard, Yaphet, Ned, and so many others who labored on that wonderful show on both sides of the camera will soon regain a full share of their legacy.”
Universal Television produced Homicide. NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution distributes the series in the U.S., and Fremantle handles international distribution.
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