NBC orders Bret Ratner's Blue Blood pilot

Sure, we haven't even got to the premieres of the new season yet, but television never sleeps. As the peacock network gets set to try and sell me on just why Silar didn't die, they are ordering up new pilots. The latest is Blue Blood, from Brett Ratner, executive producer of Prison Break.

Based on a book by New York City policeman Edward Conlon, the series follows his first year on the force. Ratner is signed on to direct and produce, with Neil Tolkin set to write the pilot. It's being described as a 'true crime drama pilot.' I'm not really sure what that means. 'Yet another cop show' didn't have the same punch?

I'm fully aware that it's unfair to judge the show based only on this limited information, but I can't help it. At the end of the day, even if it is 'true crime drama', even if it is directed by the man that brought us Rush Hour, and even if it is written by the guy that gave us the two Corey's in License To Drive, it sounds to me like another cop show. And it's hard to get too excited about that.

[via tvweek]