Overview
- NBC’s latest orders bring this week’s tally to six pilots, with five crime dramas and one cop comedy.
- What the Dead Know adapts former NYC medical examiner Barbara Butcher’s memoir, following death investigator Ava Ledger as she works cases with the NYPD.
- Beth Rinehart writes and executive produces What the Dead Know, joined by Dick Wolf, Tom Thayer, Peter Jankowski and Anastasia Puglisi, with Kevin Plunkett, Rebecca McGill and Butcher as co-executive producers.
- Puzzled is based on Danielle Trussoni’s Puzzle Master books and follows Mike Brink, a former athlete whose traumatic brain injury yields a perceptual skill set that aids local police.
- Joey Falco writes and executive produces Puzzled, with Trussoni as producer and Jordan Cerf as a non-writing EP, as both projects are set at Universal Television.