Attention, citizens of Mega City One: Judge Dredd will finally be coming to a vid-screen near you. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Rebellion, the British game company that also owns 2000AD—the "Galaxy's greatest comic" and the home of the antihero lawman—and IM Global are working on a live-action TV series about the future cop.

This will be welcome news for the tens of thousands of fans who signed a petition to make a sequel to 2012's Dredd. That movie, starring Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby, was a hit with critics and fans of the comic, but an inept marketing campaign in the US resulted in disappointing box office revenues. (The less said about the 1995 Stallone Judge Dredd film, the better.)

"This is one of those seminal sci-fi properties that seems to only become more and more relevant with age," IM Global TV President Mark Stern told Entertainment Weekly. "Not only is it a rich world with biting social commentary, but it’s also fun as hell! As a fan of the comics and both films, it’s a dream come true to be able to work with Jason and Chris [Kingsley, the owners of Rebellion] in adapting this for television."

The project is still in the early stages, so there's no word about casting—including whether Karl Urban will return—or which network it will run on. But Rebellion has proven to be a conscientious and thoughtful steward of the property, giving this Dredd fan plenty of cause for optimism. And the nature of storytelling in the Dredd-verse should lend itself well to a multipart series rather than a two-hour film, something that Marvel and Netflix have demonstrated all too ably of late.

We should also expect good production values; Jason Kingsley told The Guardian that "if everything goes according to plan, we’re going to make one of the most expensive TV shows the UK has ever seen."