Drew Goddard on How ‘High Potential’ Brought Him Back to Broadcast, Adapting ‘Holes’ for TV and Why He’ll ‘Never Say Never’ About a ‘Lost’ Reboot (EXCLUSIVE)

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Drew Goddard didn’t have any designs on returning to broadcast. But then ABC asked him to take a look at the French-Belgian series “Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (HPI)” — and it immediately inspired to turn it into the Alphabet primetime procedural “High Potential.” “The last thing I wanted to do at that time was go back to network television,” Goddard says. “Not because I have any disdain for network television.

It’s just, I know what a grind and how hard network television is. And yet when I saw the show, I thought, ‘Oh, that’s pretty special.

That approach feels very unique.’ Putting the single mom in the center of the police procedural felt necessary to right now, and more importantly, I just couldn’t stop thinking about it.” And it’s a good thing he followed that gut instinct. “High Potential,” which stars Kaitlin Olson as a single mom with a knack for solving crimes, is a smash.

The series, which returns Tuesday night for the second half of its freshman season, was the No. 1 entertainment series this fall among adults 18-49 according to multiplatform ratings.