A&E is launching its next pilot season with cast-contingent pilot orders to two hourlong projects, "Big Mike" and "Longmire." Both are male-targeted, akin to A&E's two series on the air, "The Glades"
and the upcoming "Breakout Kings." And "Big Mike," named after the central character, a plus-sized detective and a force of nature in the San Diego PD, appears to share the light tone of "The Glades."
Based on the Walt Longmire Mystery series of novels by Craig Johnson, Longmire also is named after its central character, Walt Longmire, the local sheriff in rural Wyoming. Veteran
Closer writer-producers Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny wrote the project.
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