The CW wants to shove poor Nancy Drew back into the TV reboot machine
Dear god, TV executives: Have you no sense of shame? It’s only been two short years since CBS last subjected the venerable Nancy Drew mystery franchise to the ravages of the TV Reboot Machine—that darkly churning clockwork of reimaginings, rejiggerings, and dark televisual necromancy—before ultimately passing on the pilot for Drew, which recreated the beloved teen detective as a world-weary adult cop played by the admittedly badass Sarah Shahi. (Fun fact: This was around the same period that the network was attempting to turn Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn into the heroes of their own public-domain-friendly legal thriller. Heady days.) The next year, NBC tried again, with a weirdly meta take on the franchise that would have seen author Carolyn Keene—not a real person, by the way—solving murders with the help of the childhood friends she based “her” characters on. That…also didn’t make it, on account of it being pretty palpably nuts.