JTA reports, “Young David, King Saul, Goliath and their friends are meeting again in a new television series.”

“Kings,” which will bring the biblical drama into a contemporary setting with a dash of sci-fi, opens with a two-hour premiere on the NBC network at 8 p.m. Sunday. Subsequent weekly programs will start March 22.

Series creator and executive producer Michael Green tells the news agency the idea for the show came to him several years ago during a trip to Jerusalem. He wrote the pilot while working on NBC’s “Heroes.”

“Kings” is set in the present in a kingdom called Gilboa, whose opulent capital, Shiloh, resembles a much cleaner New York and is ruled by a power-suited King Silas Benjamin, played by Ian McShane. When the king’s son, Jack, is taken hostage by an enemy army, he is saved by a young soldier named David Shepherd, played by Australian actor Chris Egan, who becomes an immediate media favorite.