The new K-Ville show has ex-mercs from "Blackriver"

[Manifestor_of_Light]

I thought it was a good show. Lots of plot twists and turns. A cop show set in Nawlins circa 2007. Tonight was the pilot. I never watch cop and lawyer and doctor shows because they are not realistic. I worked in the legal system for a couple of decades.

I had to watch and listen closely to catch what was going on. It was NOT shallow.

The police chief said that the rich peoples' political influence was due to "donations to a particular political party". That's a direct quote; I remember it.

It's been so long since I've seen an unpredictable TV show I was pretty surprised. Usually the only thing I watch on TV is the weather forecast and the Sunday night Fox cartoon shows.

[Swamp Rat]

1. Did they investigate all the murders we have here almost every day?

We could use some REAL detectives to help an understaffed police force here, but we'll settle for some actors if they have real guns and know how to use them.

Hmm, no gunshots fired in my neighborhood tonight so far. Maybe the crack dealers are watching the show too.

[Blashyrkh]

2. I'm sure this show will be just as unrealistic and crappy

Don't get suckered in because of a few cheaps shots at a "particular political party".

[watrwefitinfor]

5. Unrealistic it wasn't. At least

not in the way we've come to expect from a tv show. It was gritty, set in the post Katrina period, nontypical main character (black cop) lives in the "upper" 9th Ward among many still empty homes. He's trying to get his wife to come back to NO, but she wants no part of the city, describing the situation with the schools, and so on.

Opening sequence was lengthy footage of a couple of boats slowly going through the flooded streets. I thought at first I had stumbled across a reshowing of Spike Lee's documentary.

First scene had a cop describing how he had just shot a dog. His partner was disgusted, until the dog shooter told him he had to, because the dog was chewing on a body in the water.

No, this one is not like the others. At least not the pilot.
I totally agree with the OP.

Wat.

[Me.]

10. I Agree

I really appreciated the way they kept showing the devastation of the city and spoke about the problems people there are facing as well as addressing the reputation of the police force. And if I'm not mistaken, at least one commercial was very NO oriented. Doing a show in any city brings in money and I'm glad for NO to have it. The dig at Blackriver was timely as was the fact that it was discussed how the guy who headed the mercenaries was mentioned as having a lot of DC pull, having contributed beaucoup cash to one particular party. Both the leads, especially the guy who plays Boule, were pretty good. I'll keep watching, if for no other reason that to hope this helps keep NO front and center in the public's eye.

[liberalmuse]

3. I've read it is filmed on location in NO.

I'll watch it if some dollars make their way into the NO economy via the show bringing business there.

[Exultant Democracy]

4. I'm torn between watching for NO and avoiding it cause it is Fox.

Fox canceled Arrested Development and puts Bill-O on every night at 8.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. There are two Fox networks -- Fox Broadcasting which brings us the Simpsons and Family Guy...

(and American Idol) and this new show -- and Fox News Channel cable network which brings us Bill O'Reilly. Big diff. For one, millions and millions more people watch the broadcast network than watch FNC, and also Fox broadcasting is focused on entertainment, not propaganda.

[Exultant Democracy]

13. They are both owned by Dr. Evil. nt

[Mike Daniels]

8. Actually, the lack of viewers resulted in Arrested Development being axed

Fox deserves some credit for taking a chance with the show in the first place.

In the end, the creator of the show wasn't interested himself in carrying on even after he got tentative offers from the cable movie channels such as HBO and Showtime.

[Exultant Democracy]

12. It didn't lack viewers until they started moving the time slot every other week.

And Mitch said that it was dealing with Fox and jumping through all the hoops that burned him out, not the show.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Here's a review/article about K-Ville --

NYT: Cop Show Comes Calling in Battered New Orleans

"Everything under the hot lights arrayed along Bourbon Street was designed for a scene in 'K-Ville,' a new television show that is to have its premiere on Monday night on Fox. That’s 'K' as in 'Katrina,' and the series, while framed in the familiar trappings of a police drama, is very much about the city that was devastated by the hurricane two years ago....

Partly for verisimilitude — because, producers said, no set could ever really look like New Orleans — and partly because Peter Liguori, the chairman of Fox Entertainment, is a personal advocate for the show, the network is taking the unusual step of shooting entirely on location....The idea for 'K-Ville' started with Mr. Liguori. 'New Orleans is a very colorful place,' he said. 'It’s run by its own set of rules, and you have the process of rebuilding a city. That’s all great fodder for storytelling.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/13/arts/television/13kvil.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1190117647-HVk5ZcKNlH0jVXeHMaEriA

[hootinholler]

9. Taking a page from Homocide.

Shot on location in B'more. I'll have to check it out. Is it available via stream?

-Hoot

[DeepModem Mom]

11. Don't know about streaming. If it takes anything from "Homicide," though...

it might be a great series!

[Synnical]

14. According to a DU'er who was just there

at this post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1829148&mesg_id=1829148

NOLA residents are not so happy with K-Ville:


. . . They are starting a grass roots movement to get the new show K-ville off the air since it has scenes of people with machine guns in the Quarter . . .

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. I doubt that the show will keep tourists from going there.

If they want to gamble and drink and party there, they will.

Me, I cannot stand to be around drunks, bars and casinos. I feel lots of bad vibes.

I was there once before the storm taking my kid to college and I thought the french quarter, although interesting, was creepy. Too much bad vibes with the voodoo shops and bars and drunks.

It was NOT my idea for her to go to college there, since I did not make that decision. I didn't want her to go there because of the underage drinking. She had to go somewhere else anyway the next year.

And yet there were antique stores and art galleries with beautiful items.