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Debuting on the [[Genius Bonus|15th of March]], 2009, [[NBC]]'s ''Kings'' is like some bizarre tonal clash of ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' and ''[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|Battlestar Galactica]]''. It tells the biblical story of King David, but set in another world not unlike the [[Present Day Present Time]], in which the kingdom of Gilboa, where King Silas Benjamin (played by ''Deadwood'''s Ian McShane) has just inaugurated the new capital of Shiloh. Two years later, when Gilboa is at war with the neighboring kingdom of Gath, a plucky young soldier named David Shepherd goes behind enemy lines to rescue hostages, singlehandedly destroying a [[Meaningful Name|Goliath]] tank on the way. Then one of the hostages turns out to be Jack Benjamin, the crown prince... and so David's political life begins. Also stars [[Susanna Thompson]] (the second [[Star Trek|Borg Queen]]), Christopher Egan, Eamonn Walker, Sebastian Stan, and Allison Miller.

Canceled due to extraordinary poor ratings (no episode ever placed higher than 4th regardless of which night it aired) and a extraordinary high budget (estimated at $4 million per ''episode'' with the pilot coming in at a staggering $10 million), although [[Word of God|the series creator]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090731103905/http://www.courthistorian.com/2009/07/the-new-king-part-2.php disputes the second part].

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