There’s a rule in Tinseltown, along with the better known ones like “nobody walks here”: If something’s working, keep working it. Work that crap right to death. A wise man once illustrated the design of the Hollywood machine as, simply, “people like the same old shit, only a little different.”

In the case of Fox-based producer, Hutch Parker, the next cog on the production line isn’t shit. He’s making the same gold, only a little different.

Word has it that Parker is going to be cobbling together a cable TV series based on the books of James Lee Burke. Detective Dave Robicheaux is going to be serialized for the small screen, in all his colorful French Quarter glory.

Of course, this follows on the boot heels of another project, obvious to any who appreciate the cable TV crime drama scene: Justified. Graham Yost is the...