Overview

• 20th Television is producing the series for ABC in partnership with In Cahoots and Absecon Entertainment
• Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt will serve as co-creators, executive producers and showrunners alongside fellow executive producer Joe Webb
• Ken Kwapis will executive produce and direct the drama, joined by Alex Beattie and Reynolds Anderson of In Cahoots and Rachel Kaplan of Absecon Entertainment
• The story adapts a Tennesseean feature by Keith Sharon about a social studies teacher’s after-school forensics club that proved effective at solving real cold cases
• In early 2025 producers In Cahoots and Absecon optioned the article and developed the concept before ABC acquired the one-hour project for development