THE BIG SCREEN/MOVIES
Jason Clarke (A House of Dynamite) has signed a deal to join Viola Davis in Ally Clark, a new thriller coming together at Amazon MGM Studios, although no details were released regarding the role to be played by Clarke. The project is written by Jose Ruisanchez and Irwin Winkler, with Phillip Noyce on board to direct. The plot description per Deadline: "Ally Clark takes us from the towering skyscrapers of New York City to the sweltering bayous of Louisiana and the icy peaks of Alaska, following investigator Ally Clark (Davis) as she embarks on a perilous inquiry into an international conglomerate following the suspicious death of a close friend."
TELEVISION/STREAMING
After a bidding war, See-Saw Films (Slow Horses) has landed the rights to adapt the Lovejoy detective novels for TV, which were made into a popular BBC series in the late 1980s and early 1990s starring Ian McShane. Set in East Anglia, Lovejoy is about a charismatic antiques dealer with an almost mystical knack for spotting genuine artifacts and scams. He frequently pivots from dealer to detective, outmaneuvering rivals, criminals, and occasionally the police. Published under the nom de plume Jonathan Gash, Lovejoy is a set of 24 books from Dr. John Grant, published between 1977 and 2008. See-Saw wants to create a "contemporary reimagining of the Lovejoy novels that will strip away the nostalgia of the 1980s adaptation and return to the unrulier spirit of the books."
The BBC reported that a series of cozy crime books by Glenda Young set in Scarborough are being developed for television. Inspired by the author's childhood holidays on the North Yorkshire coast, the four-book series follows the escapades of a bed and breakfast landlady-turned-amateur-sleuth solving quirky murders.
AMC is developing The New Gothic from One Tree Hill star Hilarie Burton Morgan. Burton Morgan is writing the series with her frequent collaborator, Nick Gray, and is producing through her Mischief Farm banner, which she set up with her husband, The Walking Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Per its logline, The New Gothic redefines the legendary storytelling of the American South as it follows the collision of the enterprising Bloom family with the resurrected Mississippi Mafia. "Set in a landscape stained by red clay and bad blood, villainy is commonplace—but power is singular."
Molly Griggs (The Residence) has been tapped to star opposite Damon Wayans Jr. in the NBC drama pilot, Puzzled, from writer Joey Falco and Universal Television. Based on the Danielle Trussoni novel, The Puzzle Master, the drama follows once-promising college athlete Mike Brink (Wayans), who is transformed by a traumatic brain injury that gives him the unique ability to see the world in an unexpected way and helps him solve crimes with local police. Griggs will play Quinn Abbott, a tightly wound Atlanta PD detective. The smartest kid in class, she always knows the answer and isn’t afraid to correct you when you’re wrong. In addition to Wayans Jr., Griggs joins previously cast series regular Christina Elmore who plays Angela, the head of Atlanta P.D.’s Major Crimes Section.
Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) will star opposite the previously announced Matthew Gray Gubler in CBS's Einstein. Fumero will play Teri, a Detective Inspector for the New Jersey State Police. Rosa Salazar was originally cast in the role but wanted out of her option after the network decided to delay the series until the 2026-27 season. Einstein follows Lewis Einstein (Gubler), the brilliant but directionless great-grandson of Albert Einstein. He spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor until his bad-boy antics land him in trouble with the law, and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective (Fumero) solve her most puzzling cases. Lewis is a popular professor at Princeton … when he actually shows up for class. Irreverent and misguided, his genius and famous name weigh heavily on him, but using his gift to help solve homicides may finally offer his life some direction and purpose.
Jon Beavers (One Battle After Another) has been set to star opposite Emily Deschanel in the untitled one-hour crime drama written by Dean Georgaris and John Fox. The project is inspired by the work of expert profiler and author Dr. Ann Burgess, subject of the 2024 Hulu docuseries Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer. It follows Professor Georgia Ryan (Deschanel), a trailblazing psychologist who challenges the field of criminology by shifting the investigative focus to the victim rather than just the perpetrator in order to uncover the crucial clues that more traditional methods leave behind. Alongside her team, this pioneering expert consults with the FBI to solve the most baffling and elusive cases. Beavers will play Will Andover, who was the top profiler in his class at Quantico, but then he had a fall from grace. Now at a crossroads in his career, he desperately needs a win.
Netflix has ordered a fourth season of the political action thriller, The Night Agent, starring Gabriel Basso, which will shoot in Los Angeles after two seasons in New York following the Canada-based first installment. In Season 3, Night Agent Peter Sutherland (Basso) is called in to track down a young Treasury Agent who fled to Istanbul with sensitive government intel after killing his boss. This kicks off a sequence of events where Peter, working with a relentless journalist (Genesis Rodriguez), investigates a dark money network while avoiding its paid assassins. Season 3 was the first without Luciane Buchanan as female lead, Rose, opposite Basso’s Peter.
High Potential is returning to ABC for a third season with a new showrunner following the exit of Todd Harthan, who is leaving to focus on Eragon, the live-action adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s YA The Inheritance Cycle book series. High Potential stars Kaitlin Olson as Morgan, a single mother with an IQ of 160 working as a cleaning lady at the Los Angeles Police Department who becomes a consultant for the LAPD’s Major Crimes division. The cast also features Daniel Sunjata as Karadec, Javicia Leslie as Daphne, Deniz Akdeniz as Lev “Oz” Ozdil, Amirah J as Ava, Matthew Lamb as Elliot, and Judy Reyes as Selena. The show is currently in the back half of its second season with the Major Crimes unit investigating a complicated murder and Morgan dealing with her kids growing up.
MASTERPIECE on PBS has announced that Miss Scarlet will conclude its run with Season 7. The series stars Kate Phillips (Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light), Tom Durant-Pritchard (The Forsytes), and returning cast members Paul Bazely, Tim Chipping, Evan McCabe, Felix Scott, Cordelia Bugeja, and Ansu Kabia. Filming has started for six episodes to wrap up the story of Eliza Scarlet, Victorian London’s first female private detective. Inspired by her father’s work as a private eye, Eliza (Phillips) has spent the last six seasons breaking the glass ceiling while solving countless mysteries. She hasn’t done it alone though – within Scotland Yard, she was first aided by her childhood friend William “The Duke” Wellington (Stuart Martin), then by police Inspector and love interest Alexander Blake (Durant-Pritchard). Colleagues Moses (Ansu Kabia) and Clarence (Paul Bazely) have backed her up on case after case, and Ivy (Cathy Belton) has been a mainstay of support at home.
PODCASTS/RADIO/AUDIO
On Spybrary, Tim Shipman sat down with thriller author, James Wolff, who worked as a British intelligence officer for over ten years, to unpack his latest spy novel, Spies and Other Gods.
Dana Stabenow joined the Poisoned Pen podcast to discuss her latest novel, Harvey Girl.
Debbi Mack's latest guest on the Crime Cafe podcast was Joy Ann Ribar, author of the Deep Lakes and Bay Browning mystery series.
On Wrong Place, Write Crime, host Frank Zafiro spoke with Dan Bronson about his Jack Shannon series, including the new release, Shout at the Devil, and some great Hollywood stories.
House of Mystery chatted with Robyn Harding (The Drowning Woman), about her latest novel, Stranger in the Villa, a psychological thriller about a couple rocked by infidelity who move to a villa in Spain’s Costa Brava to rebuild their relationship, only to welcome a pair of visitors who have no intention of leaving.
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