L.A's Finest Gets a Premiere Date

On Thursday, we learn when L.A.'s Finest will be hitting the streets this spring. The Cable provider Spectrum has announced that the Bad Boys spinoff will launch ad-free on Monday, May 13 via Spectrum On Demand. It will contain 13 episodes and it will begin with the first three installments and air new episodes on a weekly.

"The one-hour series follows Syd Burnett (Gabrielle Union), last seen in Miami taking down a drug cartel, who has seemingly left her complicated past behind to become an LAPD detective. Paired with a new partner, Nancy McKenna (Jessica Alba), a working mom with an equally complex history, Syd is forced to confront how her unapologetic lifestyle may be masking a greater personal secret. Taking on the most dangerous criminals in Los Angeles while skirting the rules, and speed limits, Syd and Nancy become a force to be reckoned with- on the streets, and in each other's lives."

The cast rounding out on the show is Zach Gifford (Friday Night Lights) as Ben Walker, Duane Martin (The New Edition Story) as Ben Baines, Ryan McPartlin (Chuck) as Patrick McKenna, Sophie Reynolds (Garner's Guide to Pretty Much Everything) as Isabel "Izzy" McKenna, and Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters, Law & Order) as Joseph Vaughn.

Union and Alba serve as executive producers the series, along with Bad Boys franchise producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Additional EP's include Jonathan Littman (CSI), Kristie Anne Reed (Lucifer), Brandon Margolis (The Blacklist), Brandon Sonnier (The Blacklist), Pam Veasey (CSI: NY), Doug Belgrad (Peter Rabbit), Jeff Gaspin (To Tell The Truth), Jeff Morrone (Atomic Blonde) and Anton Cropper (Suits), who also directed the pilot episode.

The series will mark the first original series for Spectrum. Additional upcoming programs which include the anthology series Manhunt, which was previously on Discovery Channel, and the street-racing drama, Curfew.

L.A.’s Finest marks the first original series for Spectrum. Additional upcoming projects include the anthology series Manhunt (previously on Discovery Channel) and street-racing drama Curfew.

Here's the trailer: 

I've been looking forward to this show since news of the show being developed. I would have hoped that it would be on NBC and I think it would have fitted somewhere if not the spring season, but could be the summer blockbuster of a show. From the look of this trailer, I was blown away and it's got that bit of Bad Boys tick to it. I may not know what Spectrum is or where the hell it's at on the station, but I'm gonna try my best to see this series.