Although the new television programs scheduled for the 2011/2012 season have yet to debut, CBS has already announced one show planned for the following broadcast year. Shane Brennan, executive producer of CBS’s NCIS: Los Angeles, will launch a new drama based on David Baldacci’s Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series that will air on CBS in 2012/2013.
Baldacci's Sean King and Michelle Maxwell series currently consists of five books. Split Second appeared in 2003; Hour Game, in 2003; Simple Genius, in 2007; First Family, in 2009; and The Sixth Man, in 2011. Baldacci’s lead characters, both former secret service agents, are private investigators who specialize in politically sensitive cases.
"David has created a fascinating world with those 2 characters who are involved in the shadowy side of the power and politics from inside the Beltway to Wall Street," Brennan remarked in an Aug. 23, 2011 Deadline Hollywood article. "We’ll take the characters further than David would do ... but we will be very true to the mythology of the characters he created."
Deadline Hollywood cites King & Maxwell as the tentative title for the CBS drama. It will be one of the first projects for Brennan’s newly formed production company, Shane Brennan Productions.
In addition to many standalone novels, David Baldacci has written two additional mystery series – the Shaw and Katie James series and the Camel Club. His most recent standalone book, Zero Day, will be released in the U.S. on Nov. 1, 2011.
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