Well, it's not really a spinoff anymore, for starters: it's a full-blown revival.

Before you get your hopes up too high, "full-blown revival" in this case means just eight episodes. There are no current plans to bring it back as a recurring series. It will, however, very much be a continuation of character Raylan Givens' story. Timothy Olyphant ("Go," 1999) will also return to play the throwback lawman.

The series, "Justified: City Primeval," recently finished shooting, so eager fans can assume they are currently in the post-production stages.

Deadline.com reports that the limited series picks up seven years after the story in the original series ends, with Raylan Givens now living in Miami, balancing life as a U.S. Marshal with his duties as a part-time dad to 14-year-old Willa. (In a cute little detail, Willa will be played by Olyphant's real-life daughter, Vivian.)

Soon, circumstances conspire to send Givens to Detroit on the trail of a violent sociopath nicknamed the Oklahoma Wildman, who has so far eluded Motor City police.

The revival series promises to please fans of the original, not only because Olyphant returns (as does original series creator Graham Yost), but because, like the original, the revival is based directly on a novel by the great thriller writer Elmore Leonard. It draws its plot directly from Leonard's "City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit" (though adjustments will almost certainly be made to adapt it for TV, as always).

The suits at FX are certainly excited, too.

"To have this group come together again with Tim as Raylan in a new and different Elmore Leonard story is thrilling," Eric Schrier, president of FX Entertainment, said.

As for the release date, that has yet to be announced.

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