After failing to secure a pickup from CBS last year, Doubt creators Tony Phelan and Joan Rater and producer Dan Jinks are taking another stab at a Nancy Drew series, with Deadline reporting that NBC has put the project into development.
The new pilot will see Nancy as the now-adult (aged 40s-50s) author of the famous teen detective series, who finds herself thrust into a real-life murder mystery and is forced to turn to her two best friends from childhood – who served as the inspiration for the books – for help. However, her friends have an axe to grind with regards to the way their supposed best friend chose to portray them all those years ago, always casting herself as the heroine and relegating her friends to sidekicks.
Last year’s pilot saw Sarah Shahi taking on the role of Nancy, portraying the character in her 30s as a detective for the NYPD. It came close to a series order, although CBS opted instead to pick up Phelan and Rater’s Doubt; however, as Rater states, “we did a pilot and we tried to forget about it but we couldn’t; we loved the characters so much. But we knew that we had to come up with a different way to go about it.”
Are you excited by this new take on Nancy Drew?
Originally published October 18, 2017. Updated October 17, 2017.
