Westerns Making a TV Comeback?

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Battlestar Galactica Executive Producer Ron Moore has sold a western drama to ABC. The show, called Hangtown, will revolve around a "Marshal who solves crimes by instinct, an East-Coast crime-solving doctor who relies on emerging forensics, and a young woman who writes about crime in the Wild West." The article also mentions that a few other western properties being sold, including one from a female perspective by Pete Berg and Liz Heldens (Friday Night Lights).

Is the western genre making a comeback? I hope so. Yes, Jonah Hex and Cowboys & Aliens didn't do as well as some hoped, but the remakes of 3:10 to Yuma and True Grit  did well enough to show that there might be some interest. The genre was really popular in the 50s and 60s, but I can't recall the last western TV show. Maybe someone out there will remind me.

I wasn't into westerns until about ten years ago. Now I love them, even some of the bad ones (and there are some, like with any genre). I wondered if anyone would try again,and if anyone would watch it. But then I thought, if the stories are good, does it matter if it's a western?

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