FOX's New Shows for the 2007-08 Season

K-Ville

Premieres: Monday, Sept. 17
Airs: Mondays at 9 p.m.

The Pitch: Watching "K-Ville" is like making a charitable donation to a Hurricane Katrina relief organization, only with car chases!

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is a city trying to get its mojo back and an undermanned police force has to keep the city safe from a new kind of criminal. Anthony Anderson plays the native son fighting for his hometown, with Cole Hauser as the new cop in town.

What They Got Right: The idea of a show set and filmed in post-Katrina New Orleans is admirable on any number of levels. Anything that pumps money into the city is a good thing and, equally important, New Orleans is a photogenic city, so anything filmed there automatically has a geographical specificity and color that pop in a TV landscape peppered with generic procedurals. Throw in a fine cast led by Anderson, Hauser and John Carroll Lynch and "K-Ville" has a lot of things going for it on the surface.

What's Oh, So Wrong: Remember the "Chief Wiggum, P.I." segment of "The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase" episode, in which Wiggum and Skinner went down to New Orleans to fight crime and everybody spoke with hammy Paul Prudhomme-style Cajun accents and treated New Orleans like a Disney theme park ride? Welcome to "K-Ville," mon ami , where the accents are all inconsistent, the plots are taken from old "Starsky and Hutch" episodes and there's a bowl of gumbo and a jazz club around every corner. "K-Ville" a po' boy stuffed with cliches and served with a side of coffee with chicory.

Recommended If ...: You honestly believe that New Orleans can be rebuilt based on Nielsen ratings.

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