Almost Human sounds like perfect title this close to
Halloween, but this new series isn't about nightmarish ghosts and ghouls, it's set in the far more sci-fi world of robots and advanced technology.
Set in the year 2048,
Karl Urban stars as
'Detective John Kennex', a cop and survivor of one of the most deadly attacks against the police department. After being in a coma he wakes to discover his leg missing and replaced by a synthetic body part, and his partner dead.
In the future every cop must now partner with a robot and when
Kennex returns to work he terminates the
MX-43 robot assigned to him and instead finds a new partner in the form of a discontinued, oddly emotional android model named
'Dorian', played by
Michael Ealy.
Now that
Kennex is part machine with his synthetic limb and
Dorian is part human with his emotions, they make the perfect crime-fighting partners of the near future.
Karl Urban recently played the young
'Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy' in the rebooted
Star Trek film franchise and
'Judge Dredd' in the 2012 movie remake, plus
Michael Ealy starred in the short-lived
FlashForward TV show and the movie
Underworld: Awakening, so they are both no stranger to the science fiction and fantasy genre.

These billboards for the new
Fox series, hopefully a suitable replacement for the geektastic
Fringe, were spotted along
Sunset Boulevard on October 16, plus along
Ventura Boulevard in
Studio City on October 22, 2013.
The overlapping imagery of the cop partners in the ad creative isn't anything new for the sci-fi genre, but it does help convey the themes of the show and the tagline
'Some cops are born, others are made' is a pretty clever play on words too.

Originally planned to air on November 4, the series debut has now been pushed back two weeks to try and capitalise on the potential Sunday football fans for a two-night premiere starting November 17, 2013.
UPDATED: Here's a larger landscape ad for the new TV show spotted along
Highland Avenue at
Franlkin Avenue on November 14, 2013.