NBC Orders Drama Pilots ‘Puzzled’ & Dick Wolf’s ‘What The Lifeless Know’

NBC is really bringing again pilot season. Along with the barrage of January pilot orders — six over the previous 4 days — the community additionally has revived one other forgotten pilot season custom: Friday night time greenlights.

Getting pilot orders tonight are dramas Puzzled, from former Charmed showrunner Joey Falco, and What the Lifeless Know, from Dick Wolf‘s Wolf Leisure and author Beth Rinehart (FBI: Most Needed).

Each tasks are crime/cop procedurals based mostly on books, Danielle Trussoni’s novel The Puzzle Grasp and former New York Metropolis health worker Barbara Butcher’s memoir What the Lifeless Know, respectively. Each are produced by Common Tv, a division of Common Studio Group.

In Puzzled, written by Falco who govt produces with Jordan Cerf, after barely escaping a tragic hearth, once-promising school athlete Mike Brink is remodeled by a traumatic mind harm that provides him the distinctive potential to see the world in an sudden method and helps him clear up crimes with native police.

Trussoni serves as producer.

Written by Rinehart, What the Lifeless Know facilities on loss of life Investigator Ava Ledger who is absolutely good with useless our bodies. It’s the residing that give her bother. The sequence follows Ava as she groups with the NYPD to unravel their hardest circumstances.

Rinehart govt produces with Wolf Leisure’s Dick Wolf, Tom Thayer, Peter Jankowski and Anastasia Puglisi. Kevin Plunkett, Rebecca McGill and Butcher co-executive produce.

NBC had been anticipated to choose up a large variety of pilots by at this time’s requirements this pilot season — about 4 dramas and 4 comedies. The community is already overdelivering on its purpose with 5 drama pilots — The Rockford Information reboot, Safety, the untitled Georgaris/Fox undertaking, Puzzled and What the Lifeless Know. Curiously, all are within the crime style and most are procedurals, indicating a transparent programming focus for the community this season. (Tonally, Puzzled is believed to be lighter than the others.)

Even the only real NBC comedy pilot to this point this cycle, the untitled Goor/Del Tredici undertaking, is about on the planet of crime, revolving round a non-public detective. With NBC ordering 5 drama pilots, it’s unclear whether or not the community would persist with 4 comedy pickups or do fewer.

Falco beforehand created and govt produced the 2023 ABC authorized drama pilot Judgement starring Sarah Shahi. His sequence credit additionally embody Sleepy Hole and Heroes Reborn. Along with FBI: Most Needed, Rinehart labored on Wolf Leisure’s Regulation & Order: SVU and Chicago Justice. Her sequence credit additionally embody NCIS: New Orleans.