The Rockford Files as Rocky. A pilot was filmed but never broadcast. Early audiences indicated that the pilot was not directed well. On May 13, 2010, the "Rockford Files" remake was canceled by NBC. A feature adaptation was in production by Universal Pictures as of 2012, with Vince Vaughn associated with the project as producer and star. After the death of actor James Garner in 2014, the film adaptation was postponed, but Vaughn is hoping to get the film project made. Stephen J. Cannell's script for "The Rockford Files" pilot episode The Rockford Files The Rockford Files is an American television drama series
Rockford Morning Star Building Express" and the "Rockford Star", both first published in 1840. Both papers lasted only a year. The "Winnebago Forum", renamed "The Republican" in 1845, was the first city paper to have a lengthy publishing period (1842-1862). The "Rockford Morning Star" first published in 1888. It merged with the "Rockford Daily Register-Gazette" in 1928. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms purchased the paper two years later, and again split the two papers, publishing the "Morning Star" as a morning daily. The paper was purchased by the Gannett Company in 1967, who merged the last two remaining Rockford papers in 1979 to create the