In news that has us staring into the skies with fear in our hearts, waiting for signs of , white clouds, and a blimp with “You fucked around and now they’re bringing back, too” printed on the side, creator Jeff Eastin confirmed that a revival of the 2009 USA Network series is now in the works. And we a joke all primed up to the effect that this was all somehow ’ fault, but no, Eastin : “Say thank you to for starting this streaming trend. They were doing great, and got people watching now on Netflix.
That’s doing really, really good. Off of that, it’s like, ‘Hey, let’s do another one.’” For those of you unfamiliar with , it was, a little bit, kind of a lot like , actually.
(And not just because both shows had titles that were distractingly fashion-adjacent.) The series starred Matt Bomer—who confirmed that he’s “in” for a revival—as a charming corporate con-man who gets brought in by the FBI to help them catch other such criminals, giving it that whole “Our hero catches bad guys, but is also in danger of being caught for his own schemes” element that streaming audiences are apparently willing to tear all the skin off their own faces just to get a taste of. When Eastin and Bomer made these statements (at today), they also got buy-in from co-stars Tim DeKay and Tiffani Thiessen, which means they’ve pretty much got a quorum.
(The show’s other most prominent lead, , died in 2021; the cast promised that Eastin’s script for the revival “ho.