Greg Berlanti sells ABC on a procedural where a magician joins the FBI

CW superhero king Greg Berlanti has just sold a show about the other attention-seeking weirdos who do improbable things in capes, with Variety reporting that ABC has purchased a procedural drama about magicians from the Arrow and Flash mastermind. Deception comes courtesy of Chuck writer Chris Fedak, who worked with Berlanti on Legends Of Tomorrow, and centers on a disgraced stage magician forced to do what all brilliant, charismatic, recklessly rule-breaking experts must eventually do in TV land: use his talents to join the FBI and assist them on cases of the week. (Sample dialogue: “Pick a card, any card. Oh, how strange…You picked justice.” Gunshots, fade to black.)