Sigh

We're big Fans of Denis Leary and Peter Tolan's Rescue Me. Would love to see more shows like that on TV. Unfortunately...

"In what would have put Mr. (Denis) Leary in the rarefied territory of Mr. Wolf and Jerry Bruckheimer (as executive producer of at least three law enforcement dramas running in prime time), Mr. Leary nearly got another series on next year’s television schedule: “Fort Pit,” set in a dysfunctional New York City police precinct. Mr. Leary’s production company, Apostle, made “Fort Pit” as a pilot at the request of NBC.

“We gave them what they asked for,” said Mr. Leary of the pilot, which was written by Mr. Tolan. “It was a dark, edgy, funny, heartbreaking cop show, like a modern-day ‘Hill Street Blues.’ ”

In the end, though, NBC went a different way, with a lineup of new dramas for next fall, including a remake of “The Bionic Woman.." via the NYTimes.

Rescue Me returns tonight. Watch it or you're dead to us.