NBC has ordered a pilot for the drama series Murder by the Book from Good Girls creator Jenna Bans under her Universal Television-based production banner Minnesota Logging Company.
Good Girls executive producer Bill Krebs will pen the script with Bans. Starring Retta, the story will follow big city Instafamous book reviewer takes a page from the murder mystery books she reviews and becomes an unlikely detective to uncover the shocking truths about an eccentric seaside town.
The project, which had received a put pilot commitment in September, reteams Retta with Bans and Krebs after the actress previously starred in all four seasons of NBC’s crime comedy-drama Good Girls.
Murder by the Book hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, under the Minnesota Logging Co. production banner.
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