Fate of "K-ville" to be determined this week

Fate of "K-ville" to be determined this week

Posted by mlorando May 13, 2007 5:00PM

Categories: Breaking News

By Dave Walker

TV columnist

The fate of "K-Ville" will be revealed this week, and with it a potential recovery fortune for New Orleans. The prospective Fox cop show is set among the ruins of the city and amid the members of the New Orleans Police Department, all of which could use some image-polishing both at home and in the eyes of the outside world.

Louisiana has made a stirring post-Katrina comeback as Hollywood South, but a TV series set and shot here could be a gold strike for the local production community, hotels, bartenders and maybe even its bedraggled police force.

The Fox network will announce in New York City on Thursday whether "K-Ville," the pilot script for which was read and approved by NOPD brass and so therefore must be pretty positive, will "go to series" for the upcoming TV season.