The trades are reporting that Shawn Ryan, the baby daddy of The Shield, has sold a put pilot to FOX for a new show, Ridealong.  The new series will be set and shot in Chicago, Ryan’s home town, and will feature a cast of police officers who for all intents and purposes are based in their cars.

Shawn Ryan assures that series will be different enough from The Shield so that it won’t feel like he’s treading the same ground.  He cites Ridealong as being much more FOX-like than The Shield was.

Should the series go ahead we can expect it to premiere sometime in 2010.