''K-Ville''

What: A pair of New Orleans cops try to restore order to a city and their own lives.

Where: Fox

When: Premieres Monday at 9 p.m. EDT

Who: Anthony Anderson, Cole Hauser, Tawny Cypress, John Carroll Lynch, Blake Shields.

Why: This town had loads of stories to tell before Katrina hit, and it's got plenty more now.

How: The best thing about this drama is the three stars. As Det. Marlin Boulet, Anderson is cuddly, cocky and often ferocious in his devotion to his troubled town (even when the wife and daughter he loves have left him to live in Atlanta). As Boulet's new partner, Trevor Cobb, Hauser is a steely straight shooter with a tangled, questionable past. The third star? New Orleans, of course, where the series is shot on location, vividly conveying the Ninth Ward's pain and defiance. Beyond those selling points, the pilot episode is too much like standard-issue cop fare. But that doesn't mean future episodes won't rise to the level of everything ''K-Ville'' already has going for it. Nor does it mean that ''K-Ville'' isn't worth rooting for. Arriving at what seems like just the right moment, it's a crime show that not only deals with criminal justice, but has plenty of room for raging against even larger injustices inflicted on its city for two years and counting. There could be a lot of drama brewing.

By FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer

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