Fox Abandons “Police”

Oh, drat! Last July I reported here that Fox-TV had ordered a pilot made from Ben H. Winters’ Edgar Award-winning 2012 science fiction/mystery novel, The Last Policeman, and that hopes were high of it generating a series. Today, In Reference to Murder brings us word that no such program is in the offing:

Fox has passed on The Last Police, a pilot that was based on Ben Winters’s sci-fi mystery novel, The Last Policeman. Written, directed, and exec produced by Kyle Killen (Lone Star), the story follows a small-town police detective (Blu Hunt), who, as an asteroid races toward an apocalyptic collision with Earth, believes she’s been chosen to save humanity, while her cynical partner (Reno Wilson) can’t decide what he’ll enjoy more: her delusional failure, or the end of the world itself. Maximiliano Hernandez, Dawnn Lewis, Derek Phillips, Courtney Dietz, and Troy Kotsur were cast as series regulars.

Who knows, though. Winters’ concept seems made for small-screen adaptation. Perhaps some streaming-TV service will take up the project, now that Fox has bailed.