Due to the Thanksgiving holidays, news from the crime-fiction media world is a bit light this week, but I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday weekend.
MOVIES
Paramount is planning a remake of Young Sherlock Holmes, a series from 1985 that followed teenage versions of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Digital Spy also noted that a script for a third entry in Warner Bros' Robert Downey, Jr./Jude Law film version of Sherlock Holmes is currently in development.
Bryan Cranston is joining the cast of the indie drama Eye of Winter. He'll play a nearly blind crook who takes as hostages the owner of a floundering motel and her daughter, using them to help extract money from a dirty cop.
A trailer for writer-director Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly was released. The film is based on a novel by George V Higgins and features Brad Pitt playing an enforcer character who investigates a heist that occurs during a poker game played by mob bosses.
TV
CSI and CSI: New York are trying a personal take on upoming crossover episodes in February, with Detective Mac Taylor (Gary Sinise) traveling to Las Vegas to meet his girlfriend, only to determine she has been kidnapped. Then, later that week, CSI’s D.B. Russell (Ted Danson) will briefly relocate to New York.
Omnimysery News reports that the BBC has several new crime dramas in development, including What Remains, Happy Valley, By Any Means, and Hinterland, a detective series based in the coastal Welsh town of Aberystwyth. The Beeb also renewed George Gently for a seventh season, and BBC Four will air the Italian crime drama Young Mantalbano, based on short stories by crime novelist Andrea Camilleri.
House star Hugh Laurie is close to a deal to star as the famous pirate Blackbeard in in the NBC series Crossbones.
Law & Order: SVU has signed Jane Kaczmarek to play Suffolk County district attorney Pam James, as a foil for DA Rafael Barba (Raúl Esparza) when the two clash during a rape trial.
From Eurocrime: Erin Kelly's The Poison Tree has been made into two one-hour episodes, the first of which will be shown on 10 December at 9pm on ITV1.
GAMES
Legacy Games has released an interactive video game titled Return to Cabot Cove, based on the popular Murder, She Wrote television series starring Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher.
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