ABC passed on the NYPD Blue revival pilot because "the bar was so high"

TVLine

ABC hasn't given up on an NYPD Blue revival. "There are conversations about continuing it but possibly in a different iteration," ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke tells Deadline. Meanwhile, Burke tells TVLine the decision to not pick up the pilot was "heartbreaking." “The main problem was that the bar was so high,” she says. “It was a very good pilot. On any other network, in any other circumstance, that show (likely) gets on the air. For us, we kept the bar really high. We all felt like unless we can really advance the ball from the original let’s let the original rest. They did as good a job as one can do with something that is that revered.”