Short Takes : Gless Misses ‘Cagney & Lacey’

Actress Sharon Gless enjoys her new dramatic series “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill,” but confesses she misses her days of sharing the load with “Cagney & Lacey” co-star Tyne Daly.

“There’s good news and bad news. Sometimes it’s easier to carry a show alone. I do miss Tyne very much,” Gless said in an interview published this week in Entertainment Weekly magazine.

“The bad thing here is that you don’t have anyone to share the work with,” added the actress, who won two Emmy Awards for her role as the tough but tender Christine Cagney.

“The Trials of Rosie O’Neill” remained a woman’s show despite pressure to give her a male partner.

“This is the first time a woman has carried a drama that’s not a genre show like a cop show or a murder mystery,” said the show’s co-creator and head writer Beth Sullivan.

When “Cagney & Lacey” went off the air, Gless said, “no one took the baton from us.”

“There really hasn’t been a woman’s show since. In the hour format, it’s Angela Lansbury (‘Murder, She Wrote’) and me. Shows like ‘Hill Street Blues’ and ‘L.A. Law’ are never written for women,” Gless said.