The Purge TV Show to Explore Life on Non-Purge Nights

The series will show how the purge law affects America.

By Alex Gilyadov

The upcoming Purge TV series will focus on what life is like on non-purge nights.

Series creator James DeMonaco revealed, during NBC's upfront presentation (via Entertainment Weekly), that the series will show how this purge law affects America during the other "normal" 364 days of the year. DeMonaco believes this idea can't be properly pulled off in a 95-minute Purge movie.

"What’s great about Purge TV is that the ten hours they’ll be giving us, it allows us to explore character, why someone on this night would do something so heinous as pick up a gun or a knife and do something," said DeMonaco .

DeMonaco will most likely be writing the pilot and overseeing the show, with Jason Blum's Blumhouse Television producing. The series will air on USA and Syfy, though no release date has been set yet. DeMonaco is also scripting the fourth Purge film, which will open in theaters in July, 2018.

Read why IGN thought the last film in the series, The Purge: Election Year, is "completely engrossing" and "the best entry yet in the thriller franchise."

Alex Gilyadov is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter. 

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