Nancy Drew Pilot From Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage in Development at The CW

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Could the third time actually be the charm for Nancy Drew? Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage — also known as the people who brought you The O.C. and Gossip Girl — are developing a potential series about the young detective for The CW, according to Deadline.

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The new take on the popular character picks up with Nancy the summer after she graduates high school. A family tragedy has forced her to put off college for a year, and while she’s stuck at home, she’s sucked into a “ghostly murder investigation.” The Magicians‘ Noga Landau is writing the script and will executive-produce the series alongside Schwartz and Savage.

This is the third time in as many years that someone has tried to bring the iconic teenage sleuth to the small screen during development season, aka the time of year networks start looking at the next crop of possible shows. Doubt creators Tony Phelan and Joan Rater kicked things off in 2016, with a project starring Sarah Shahi, at CBS. The project then moved over to NBC in 2017, but it didn’t make it past the pilot phase in either cycle. Now Schwartz and Savage are taking their version of the character to the younger-skewing CW network.

Of course, Nancy Drew has been adapted before, once in the ’70s alongside The Hardy Boys, and again in the ’90s with Tracy Ryan in the lead role. Emma Roberts also played the teen detective in the 2007 film based on the best-selling young adult novels.

Nancy Drew, if picked up, will give Schwartz and Savage a total of four shows on the air. They already have Dynasty on The CW and Marvel’s Runawayson Hulu, where they are also in pre-production on their adaptation of John Green’s Looking for Alaska.

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