Attorney and author praises crime shows

By NOEL HOLSTON
LOS ANGELES TIMES
No American author writes crime fiction more dense or sophisticated than Scott Turow, whose best sellers "Presumed Innocent" and "Burden of Proof" transcend the genre like those of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler did a half-century ago. At a recent Q & amp;A with TV critics in Los Angeles in conjunction with CBS' upcoming miniseries based on his novel "Reversible Errors," I asked the Harvard-educated Turow, who is a practicing attorney from Chicago, if there were any weekly crime shows he could watch without giggling or rolling his eyes.
Quite a few, as it turned out. Turow said he's "a serious fan" of a number of shows. "I like 'Law & amp; Order.' It eschews the internal life of those characters, but as a police procedural, it's really first-rate and always technically accurate," he said.
"I love 'NYPD Blue' for the opposite reason, because the depth of it is so terrific, and [it] shows what can go on in serious television.
"And I have to say I've become quite drawn to the 'CSI' shows. I don't think they're technically accurate, but I love ... this sort of different slice of TV dramatics. They're innovative shows."