09.30 | Fox commits to noir pilot from '24' duo

'24' producers Bob Cochran and Joel Surnow have a new show for Fox.

It's called 'Thirteen', because it'll run over 13 episodes.

Set in present-day Los Angeles, it will mine the film noir vein in the potboiler-meets-psychological-drama spirit of Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential" and such vintage classics as 1944's "Murder, My Sweet" and 1947's "Out of the Past," said Bob Cochran, who will produce with Joel Surnow.

"We'd like to do the same thing for film noir with this that '24' did for the thriller format," Cochran said. "There's not a whole on TV right now in this wonderful genre, and we feel that we're kind of in the same place where we were a few years ago when '24' launched. There's real opportunity for someone to reinvent this format for TV."

Cochran said the project "will have more languid moments and more sexuality and sensuality than '24' has allowed for". Ooh-er missus.

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