Neve Campbell gained’t be starring in a midseason crime drama on ABC in spite of everything: The community has ended growth on Avalon, a David E. Kelley sequence that might have marked Campbell’s first post-Scream main position.
In Avalon, created by Kelley and based mostly on the Michael Connelly brief story of the identical title, Campbell would have performed Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detective Nicole “Nic” Searcy, who’s based mostly within the metropolis of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. “Catalina has a local population that serves more than 1 million tourists a year, and each day when the ferries arrive, hundreds of potential new stories enter the island,” ABC mentioned in a logline for the present. “Detective Searcy is pulled into a career-defining mystery that will challenge everything she knows about herself and the island.”
According to Deadline, ABC handed on Avalon after seeing the primary episode, even after handing the mission a straight-to-series order in February. A+E Networks, which alongside twentieth Television produced the Avalon pilot via its A+E Studios arm, will now store the sequence to streamers and different networks.
A+E Networks did the identical factor to discover a new house for The Lincoln Lawyer, one other David E. Kelley mission based mostly on a Michael Connelly story with Campbell on the solid roster. CBS handed on The Lincoln Lawyer, so A+E Networks set it up at Netflix as a substitute.
The solid of Avalon additionally contains Demetrius Grosse (Fear the Walking Dead), Alexa Mansour (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), Steven Pasquale (The Bite), and Roslyn Ruff (Blue Bloods). Kelley wrote the primary episode and serves as government producer alongside Connelly, showrunner Dana Calvo, Rose Fineman of Fineman Entertainment and Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson of A+E Studios.