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As the nation convulsed with police brutality protests this spring, TV cop shows started to catch a lot of flak. Reality shows that glorify the police were the first to go. Then attention turned to Dick Wolf. The Law & Order creator, an alumnus of shows like Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice, is the king of scripted television crime drama.
The global uproar strikes at the heart of a lucrative business Wolf has been building since the first Law & Order episode aired in 1990. The prolific producer has created one of TV's most valuable libraries that includes his original crime drama, its 10 domestic and international spinoffs, and scripted and unscripted series, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in profits every year for NBCUniversal.
"We have always adapted to current events in a non-political way and our viewers can expect us to keep doing so," the 73-year-old Wolf told Senior Editor Dawn Chmielewski after agreeing to answer emailed questions, his first comments to the media about the crisis. "We are listening to everything going on right now."
Wolf commands as much as $200,000 per episode. His studio deal with Universal Television—a "Spielberg deal"–entitles him to half of his shows' profits. That has put Wolfe on the path to becoming the rarest of Hollywood creatures: the creator billionaire.
"You can look at the entire Wolf library and not find an episode that has been on the wrong side of history," Wolf says. Read the full story here.
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