THE MARKET: Will “K-Ville” on FOX make it to a fifth episode? The crime drama will premiere in its regular timeslot on FOX on Monday, September 17 at 9 p.m. ET. Trading will close the night of its scheduled third episode on Oct. 1. If a fifth episode airs, shares are worth $100. If it doesn’t, they’re worth $0. See TV confirmation guidelines.
THE LOWDOWN: This show depicts New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina (hence the K). And it does so in a way that only a major network cop procedural can: devoid of social critique and heavy on the action. The show follows NOPD cop Marlin Boulet (Anthony Anderson) for whom (according to FOX) the “stakes are too high, and the city too lawless … to do things by the book.” Will viewers be as absent as the federal government or as heroic as Sean Penn? Make the call.
THE PR: Time’s James Poniewozik is skeptical, saying, “The pilot is half about the law-enforcement, personal and social aftereffects of Katrina, and the racial overtones of the reconstruction, or lack thereof. (There are also a few chilling flashbacks to the floods, and how some people survived and didn’t.) That part looks like a fascinating show. The other half, though, is a more or less standard cop procedural, which seems all the more rushed and unconvincing for being compressed.” LEARN MORE:
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