{"id":76358,"date":"2025-12-20T07:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76358\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:09:29","slug":"new-york-undercover-co-creator-was-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76358\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New York Undercover\u2019 Co-Creator Was 68"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKevin Arkadie<\/a>, the co-creator of Fox cop drama series New York Undercover<\/a>, died this week. Arkadie, who was 68, died on December 17. The nature of his death is unclear.<\/p>\n

\n\tArkadie also worked on series including CBS\u2019 Chicago Hope, ABC\u2019s NYPD Blue\u00a0and FX\u2019s The Shield\u00a0as well as, more recently, BET series including Sacrifice and The Quad.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis first TV staff role was on NBC drama I\u2019ll Fly Away, which starred Regina Taylor as a Black housekeeper in the late 1950s for the family of a district attorney, played by Sam Waterston. It ran for two seasons between 1991 and 1993.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe then co-created New York Undercover\u00a0with Dick Wolf. The series, which he also wrote and produced, was notable for being the first U.S. cop drama to feature two people of color \u2013 Malik Yoba and Michael DeLorenzo. He went on to serve as a writer and producer on Chicago Hope, a supervising producer on NYPD Blue and co-executive producer on The Shield.<\/p>\n

\n\tBorn and raised in Washington, D.C., he moved to Maryland, then Dallas, Texas, where he graduated from Lake\u202fHighlands High School. He started as a film major at Southern Methodist University before switching to theater and earning a BFA in acting.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis first writing assignment was on ABC drama Knightwatch\u00a0before working on Fox\u2019s Alien Nation.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to writing NBC mini-series The Temptations, about the Motown group, he was showrunner for two season of BET\u2019s Sacrifice, showrunner of OWN\u2019s Ambitions, co-exec producer of BET\u2019s The Quad and OWN\u2019s Greenleaf and showrunner and co-creator of Media\u00a0for TV One.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe won two Emmys for Outstanding Drama Series for Chicago Hope\u00a0and NYPD Blue.<\/p>\n

\n\tA keen cyclist and photographer, Arkadie\u00a0was sanguine about his journey. \u201cIf everything ended today, I did good. \u2026 Mine is a long story of success, but even so, I still took it up the ass more than I wanted,\u201d he told his wife.<\/p>\n

\n\tStan Spry, who was Arkadie\u2019s manager and runs Evoke Entertainment, said, \u201cKevin was a tremendous talent and a trailblazer. More importantly he was a beautiful person and a friend. His impact on television will not be forgotten, nor will his impact on the lives of those who loved him. He will be greatly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tArkadie\u00a0is survived by his wife and family. A celebration of life is being planned for spring 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Arkadie, the co-creator of Fox cop drama series New York Undercover, died this week. Arkadie, who was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[38331,9,11,10,38332,7666],"class_list":["post-76358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-kevin-arkadie","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-undercover","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}