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Brandon Tartikoff
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Brandon Tartikoff

American television executive
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  • The “MTV cops” who defined a decade
    Miami Vice
    / Development: MTV cops meets modern-day American Casablanca

    … claims that NBC chief programmer Brandon Tartikoff struck upon the idea of a crime show with a music-video aesthetic and scribbled “MTV cops” on a memo during a brainstorming session, and from that concept Miami Vice was born. In reality Anthony Yerkovich, a TV writer and producer who had worked…

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    … claims that NBC chief programmer Brandon Tartikoff struck upon the idea of a crime show with a music-video aesthetic and scribbled “MTV cops” on a memo during a brainstorming session, and from that concept Miami Vice was born. In reality Anthony Yerkovich, a TV writer and producer who had worked…

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