ABC is scuttling its sequence Avalon, taking the sequence from David E. Kelley off its 2022-23 slate.
The drama, produced by A+E Studios and Disney’s twentieth Television, was to have starred Neve Campbell because the L.A. Sheriff’s detective who leads a small workplace on Catalina Island off the Southern California coast. The present, based mostly on a brief story by Michael Connelly and created for tv by the prolific Kelley, scored a straight to sequence order in February.
Dana Calvo (Good Girls Revolt, Narcos) got here aboard as showrunner in April. Campbell heads a solid that additionally contains Steven Pasquale, Alexa Mansour, Demetrius Grosse and Roslyn Ruff.
Sources say that the present’s first episode had completed filming, however nothing past that. A+E Studios is claimed to imagine within the present’s auspices and can discover choices to search out Avalon one other house.
Campbell, who additionally stars in Kelley and Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer at Netflix, performs Nicole “Nic” Searcy, who heads the sheriff’s outpost within the titular metropolis on Catalina. With a everlasting inhabitants of about 4,000 and greater than 1,000,000 vacationers every year, the island sees lots of of potential tales arrive by ferry every day. Searcy is pulled right into a career-defining thriller that can problem all the things she is aware of about herself and the island.
Calvo, Kelley and Connelly government produce with Ross Fineman of Fineman Entertainment and A+E Studios’ Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson.
ABC will bow dramas Will Trent and The Company You Keep within the first quarter of 2023, together with the ultimate season of A Million Little Things and the Gina Rodriguez-led comedy Not Dead Yet. First-year dramas The Rookie: Feds, which has a full-season order, and Alaska Daily are additionally set to proceed within the second half of the season.
