A big trend for t.v. recently has been small screen reboots of popular movies, with the likes of Hannibal, Limitless, Bates Motel, From Dusk Till Dawn, and Minority Report all playing to varying degrees of success. The upcoming 2016/2017 season doesn’t see that trend ending any time soon. We’ve already seen the trailer for the suspect Lethal Weapon series, and The Exorcist and Frequency are also coming our way. We all know how these will probably turn out, but there’s one show that could prove to be the diamond in the rough, and that is Training Day. Yes, the same Training Day that gave us one of Denzel Washington’s greatest performances is coming to t.v., with Bill Paxton stepping into his shoes as the morally compromised detective Frank Rourke. Yes, Bill Paxton. Now that I have your attention, check out the trailer below.
Paxton has been absolutely killing it on t.v. in recent years with the like of Big Love and his guest role on the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and he hasn’t missed a step here, with this serialisation building on what came before (and just coasting on it’s popularity like another upcoming small screen reboot), and adding a neat twist to the premise, mainly that the thrust of the series seems to be trainee Kyle Craig (Justin Cornwell) trying to get Rourke back on the straight and narrow. Hopes are high for this one, and there is every chance it will deliver.
Paxton has been absolutely killing it on t.v. in recent years with the like of Big Love and his guest role on the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and he hasn’t missed a step here, with this serialisation building on what came before (and just coasting on it’s popularity like another upcoming small screen reboot), and adding a neat twist to the premise, mainly that the thrust of the series seems to be trainee Kyle Craig (Justin Cornwell) trying to get Rourke back on the straight and narrow. Hopes are high for this one, and there is every chance it will deliver.
