The thrilling crime drama Training Day is being remade into a television series.

American broadcasters CBS have ordered a pilot based on the 2001 movie.

The original film follows the first day of rookie detective Jake Hoyt, played by Ethan Hawke, around the crime-ridden streets of Los Angeles, with a dubious mentor, Det. Alonzo Harris, portrayed by Denzel Washington.

Variety reports that the new television pilot is set fifteen years later, with an idealistic, naive African-American police officer, who teams up with a morally corrupt Caucasian detective.

Training Day's original director Antoine Fuqua will direct the television pilot and the show is penned by Gangster Squad writer Will Beall.