Kojak. He's bald, bad, and back. Well. Not really back. Telly Savalas, who brought the lollipop-loving, hard-boiled detective with a heart of gold to the airwaves from 1973 to 1978, died 11 years ago.

KOJAK. Tonight at 9, USA. 2 STARS. The tough-talking, lollipop-sucking, fedora-wearing, dapper-dressing New York cop named Kojak is back – and USA Network’s got him. And where Telly Savalas played him ...

“Kojak” is back, 11 years after the death of Telly Savalas, in a limited series from the USA Network, and let us all admit from the start that, lollipops and “New York setting” aside -- Toronto ...

Television’s war on originality continues unabated. In a single week, we will be carpet-bombed with a remake of “The Office,” an extreme makeover of the “Little House on the Prairie,” a reality show ...

Bald head? Check. Lollipop? Check. Fedora? Done. The basic elements of “Kojak,” the hit cop drama from the ’70s, survive in the 21st-century remake starting tonight on the USA Network. That Ving ...

America loved Telly Savalas in the 1970s, when the veteran Greek-American actor nailed the title role in CBS’ “Kojak” series — a tough New York City police lieutenant with a heart of gold, given to ...

Television’s remake business disgorges another rickety knockoff as USA Network updates the police drama Kojak with disturbing results. Kojak originally ran from 1973 to 1978 and gave Telly Savalas his ...

Kojak is coming back — and Ving Rhames is playing him. This isn’t a Saturday Night Live spoof. It’s a USA revival of the evergreen police drama, which premieres March 27 on the cable network. Actors ...

An online campaign launched this week to rename a Duluth street for actor Telly Savalas, the bald-headed, crime-solving, lollipop-sucking star of TV's "Kojak" in the 1970s. "Telly Savalas lived in ...

Former “Knots Landing” and “Kojak” star Kevin Dobson is dead at age 77, the United Veterans Council of San Joaquin County announced. Dobson, an Army veteran who previously served as chairman for the ...

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