Shawn Ryan's "The Chicago Code"

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Ride Along was officially announced for a pickup by FOX, to debut in the midseason Monday's at 9PM. I am very intrigued by the premise for this, due to the fact that Shawn Ryan has proven he can create incredible stories focused on cops and corruption. Wysocki sounds like a cleaner version of Vic Mackey from "The Shield." The casting is great so far, and I am really excited to see the final product in the fall on Fox. Jennifer Beals has recently been on "Lie to Me" so I'd assume Shawn enjoyed working with her so much, he signed her on as a star here. Delroy Lindo is always excellent, especially in that slick, villainous role he's shown us many times.

Ride-Along," set and filmed in Chicago, centers on a Chicago born-and-bread Detective Jarek Wysocki (Jason Clarke) aka "the Polish cowboy," one of the city's toughest cops. He is a local legend and outsized character with a wicked sense of humor who struggles to clean up the town's violence and corruption, along with the help of Teresa (Jennifer Beals), Chicago's first young female police chief. Alderman Gibbons (Delroy Lindo) is a longtime building magnate-turned-politician who is loved by his constituents, but there have always been whispers about possible ties to organized crime and Jarek and Teresa are convinced he's dirty.

Shawn Ryan's hope is that if Fox orders a full series, "Ridealong" will be filmed entirely in Chicago. Ryan said the show is "mostly about cops, but we will deal with how cops are affected/stymied/supported by local political elements." The show will be "filmed primarily on the streets with our cops' vehicles serving as their offices. It will be part cop procedural, part buddy comedy, part political thriller, part undercover drama... or it will just be a huge mess," Ryan said. "But I'm going to try to make it good."