Homicide: Life on the Street (1993-1999) HD/UHD-Remastered coming to streaming

[Cap.T]

The TV-Show "Homicide: Life on the Street" which ran on NBC from 1993 to 1999 is coming to streaming according to David Simon. Simon wrote the book, which the show was based on and was a writer and producer on the show. Until now the show hasn't been available on streaming plattforms, because of music rights issues.

According to a Twitter-Post from Simon "... NBC has managed to finally secure the music rights necessary to sell Homicide: Life On The Streets to a streaming platform".

The webside TVLine.com confirmed Simon's tweet with Universal. The studio also mentioned, that the series is being remastered in HD and UHD.

Addressing a new social media post by David Simon, author of the 1991 novel Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, a rep for NBCUniversal confirms for TVLine, "We’re currently in the midst of resolving the music rights issues for Homicide: Life on the Street and remastering the series to HD and UHD (for the first time)."

The show starred among others Daniel Baldwin, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clarkson Johnson, Yaphet Kotto, Melissa Leo, Jon Polito, Kyle Secor and Ned Beatty.

https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status...19920939635097

https://tvline.com/news/how-to-watch...ne-1235100197/

[badfingerboogie]

Hoping Universal follows through with a physical release, too.

[Zechs Merquise]

They didn't replace any of the music on the DVDs, did they? Cause I'm thinking, even if all the music's not there for the streaming, some enterprising young pirate could probably just use the audio from the DVDs

[Walter Kafka]

4x3 or bust

[Network23]

Id be all over this is they released a 4k UHD boxset for this, my top ten all time cop shows!

[dissention]

Brilliant show, I’ll be gutted if they force widescreen on us.

[LexInHD]

Originally Posted by dissention

Brilliant show, I’ll be gutted if they force widescreen on us.

It may have been a widescreen-safe production, as prime-time drama shows started to do that, around the early 90's. If that's the case, we won't have anything to complain about, though we simply don't know anything until we are presented with something to watch.

[ctujackbauer]

Originally Posted by Walter Kafka

4x3 or bust

Originally Posted by dissention

Brilliant show, I’ll be gutted if they force widescreen on us.

Y'all didn't say that for The Wire, The Sopranos, and the first few seasons of Six Feet Under, right?

[theusher]

‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ Finally Gets Streaming Home at Peacock

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.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...ck-1235953551/

[BluMonday]

Hopefully at least a Blu-Ray box set is made available. I would love to retire my file cabinet DVD set after almost 20 years.

Like many shows of the time, Homicide was shot on film (specifically Super 16), but post was often done on SD video. With luck, that original film has been scanned and this isn’t simply an upsample. We’ll know more soon.

If this is true, it will be similar to my experience watching The X-Files. With all the details restored, it felt like looking into a window of the '90s, almost as if I were watching it for the first time again. I've watched Homicide:LOTS completely 3 times and there's some dark, grainy scenes that hopefully will be cleared up.

I'm glad the music is being kept "as is." The music choices were important to the storyline and wouldn't be easily replaced.

[Boccaccio]

Originally Posted by BluMonday

Hopefully at least a Blu-Ray box set is made available.

It would be an instant blind buy.

[John1701D]

Is this procedural or serialized? Really hard to get info procedural shows now.

[LexInHD]

Originally Posted by John1701D

Is this procedural or serialized? Really hard to get info procedural shows now.

It's a 1-by-1 procedural show, with a serialized character foundation, so some stuff carries over from one episode to another, as character beats go on.

[Zechs Merquise]

Originally Posted by John1701D

Is this procedural or serialized? Really hard to get info procedural shows now.

It's not like Law & Order, no

[theusher]

Seems like the remaster will be in 16:9

[laidbacklarkin]

Originally Posted by theusher

Seems like the remaster will be in 16:9

shites

[captveg]

Isn't that saying it's gonna be available both ways?

[Jay Mammoth]

Originally Posted by captveg

Isn't that saying it's gonna be available both ways?

No, it says in the post “not” the original aspect ratio.

[captveg]

Originally Posted by Jay Mammoth

No, it says in the post “not” the original aspect ratio.

D'oh. Damn tablet layout cropped the tweet pic, lol.

[LexInHD]

As I said before, it could have been shot widescreen safe - as some shows were starting to do at that time - and there might not be anything to get worried about. We'll just have to wait and see.