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LOS ANGELES, July 12 (UPI) -- The recent massacre of five police officers in Dallas has prompted USA to delay the release of Ryan Phillippe's series Shooter. The series had been set to release July 11, but has been postponed to July 26, USA Network announced.
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"In light of recent tragic events and out of respect for the victims, their families and our viewers, we have decided to postpone the premiere date for the upcoming USA Network series..." the network announced, according to Us Weekly.
The delay gives victims and their families more time to heal, the network said.
The drama about a sniper opens with the sound of gunshot amid real-life images of actual incidents of gun violence, prompting the network to delay release, Hollywood Reporter said.
A heavily armed sniper was holed up in El Centro College in Dallas, July 7, while a peaceful Black Lives Matter rally was taking place in the streets below. The sniper, who had served in the military, killed five police before the Dallas Police Department deployed a robot to detonate explosives and kill him.
The series Shooter is based on the Mark Wahlberg film of the same name released in 2007. The TV series, like the movie, centers around a U.S. veteran wrongly accused of a crime. He tries to clear his name so he can return to his family.
Paramount TV and Universal Cable Productions put the series together naming Wahlberg as executive producer. USA partnered with several veterans' group and is a show certified by "Got Your 6" as portraying veterans with accuracy and sensitivity.
This isn't the first time a network has changed a schedule as the result of real-life tragedy. Fox's drama series 24 was set to premiere Oct. 20, 2001, but was delayed to Nov. 6 following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. That series focused on Kiefer Sutherland's character trying to stop terrorists from carrying out an assassination.
