Is ‘Homicide: Life on the Street’ closer to streaming?

Is Detective Frank Pembleton close to streaming glory? After months of speculation and decades of frustration, there are signs that “Homicide: Life on the Street,” the critically acclaimed Baltimore-set NBC drama, might be one step closer to being available for streaming platforms. The holdup for the Emmy-winning classic, which followed fictional Baltimore Police Department detectives as they navigated life, death and humanity from their Fells Point headquarters, has been the necessity of securing rights to the music used on the show.