Latest Articles
Show Details

Latest 'The Tenderloin' News

Name: The Tenderloin
Genre: History

Stallone Teams with History for Dirty Cop Drama The Tenderloin

Sylvester Stallone teams with the History channel to develop a series based on Charles Becker, the only cop in U.S. history to be executed for murder.

Mike SpragueMar 28, 2019

The Tenderloin Synopsis

{The Tenderloin} is sure to be a controversial series once it hits the air as it centers on the true story of the first and only policeman in U.S. history executed for murder. But that's how the story all ends, mind you, and so the series seems to be more interested in telling the real struggles of Charles Becker. The show is said to be a passion project for Stallone, who has discovered new facts on Becker’s case that shed new light on this infamous anti-hero.

Charles Becker, for those in need of a history lesson (like this guy), was a turn of the century New York cop whose exploits leading up to his ultimate demise will make for one hell of a story to be sure. You see, the powers that be put this Becker-fellow in charge of a collection of cops known as the Strong-Arm Squad. This group of dirty cops was tasked to impose order in a New York that was controlled by gangs and Tammany Hall (the name given to the political climate that dominated NYC politics from 1854-1934). Becker and his team went to full-on war with the Italian, Jewish and Irish gangs in a violent New York City neighborhood called - you guessed it - The Tenderloin.