TV Watch: We don't even need Jimmy Smits 'cause we got Jamie Foxx

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TV Watch: We don't even need Jimmy Smits 'cause we got Jamie Foxx

POSTED: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 8:15 PM

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Jamie Foxx/Wanda <3 Philadelphia

So Jimmy Smits didn't want to make the commute to Philly to shoot Outlaw but who gives a flying frisbee? 'Cause Jamie Foxx loves us anyway. TBS and TNT announced their new slate of shows, including this one from exec producer Mr. Foxx, who apparently couldn't get enough of us after his time here on Law Abiding Citizen:

MISS PHILLY â Executive producer/writer Jamie Foxx (The Soloist, Ray), executive producer/writer Barbara Hall (Joan of Arcadia, Judging Amy) and executive producers Marcus King (The Jamie Foxx Show) and Jaime Rucker King (Ray) explore the pristine suburbs and urban war zones of Philadelphia, where the mayor has hired the first African-American police commissioner. She finds herself handling more than she ever expected.

Yeah, yeah, the title is stupid and no word yet on who is playing Miss Philly herself (...just throwing Regina King's name out there... although she's on TNT's Southland already, so probably not. I just really like her) but Barbara Hall has a solid pedigree and TNT has been turning it out orignal series-wise as of late so I'm willing to give this a go-round. And can you really resist "pristine suburbs and urban war zones." No, you can't. No word yet on whether this will actually be shot here. We'll give you the head's up when we hear. There's no sign in TBS' press material about Uncle Nigel, the in-development show starring Gary Cole as a Philly cop who takes his idiot nephew as a partner. Any tipsters know the deal? RELATED >> IDOL HANDS: American Idol, Fanastic Mr. Foxx

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