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EXCLUSIVE: While NBC play aviator What nan Dead Know did not make nan trim for a bid order, nan web has remained precocious connected nan wide premise and nan project’s star, Taylor Schilling.
The crime procedural, from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television, will beryllium redeveloped pinch nan aforesaid lead and a caller writer. Universal Television, a section of Universal Studio Group, has extended nan action connected Schilling, which was astir to expire, Deadline has learned.
Additionally, hunt is underway for a caller writer to revamp nan play built astir Schilling playing a decease Investigator. Depending really nan redevelopment goes, nan retooled task will beryllium successful contention for a straight-to-series order, I hear.
The news is not surprising. As Deadline has reported, Orange is nan New Black alumna Schilling received precocious marks for her capacity during NBC’s aviator screenings and, while nan web felt that successful its existent shape nan What nan Dead Know aviator was a no-go, nan operation of Schilling and Wolf Entertainment was capable to gain nan task a do-over.
What nan Dead Know, based connected erstwhile New York City aesculapian examiner Barbara Butcher’s memoir of nan aforesaid know, was developed arsenic a imaginable companion for different Wolf Entertainment crime play pinch a female lead astatine NBC, nan venerable Law & Order: SVU. Beth Rinehart wrote nan original aviator script.
Wolf Entertainment’s Dick Wolf, Tom Thayer, Peter Jankowski and Anastasia Puglisi executive produce; Kevin Plunkett, Rebecca McGill and Butcher service arsenic co-executive producers.
NBC picked up 4 of its 8 2026 pilots to series: dramas The Rockford Files, toplined by David Boreanaz, and Line of Fire, starring Peter Krause, and comedies Sunset P.I. (single-camera), headlined by Jake Johnson, and Newlyweds (multi-camera), starring Téa Leoni and Tim Daly.
