NBC Developing New Series Based on Charlaine Harris’ Midnight, Texas Books
Debi Moore
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As if our DVRs aren’t full enough, NBC is developing a new supernatural series based on bestselling author Charlaine Harris’ Midnight, Texas books, which focus on a creepy, fictitious town in the Lone Star state.
Per EW, if the series moves forward, it will kick off in the fall of 2016.
“It’s where humans and the supernatural co-exist and where everyone has a secret,” says executive producer David Janollari (“Six Feet Under”), who is adapting the books with Monica Breen (“Lost”) for the network. “It’s equal parts humorous, sexy, and downright scary.”
The first book in the series, Midnight Crossroad, was published last year, while a follow-up, Day Shift, was released this past May. The third, Night Shift, is to set debut next spring. If picked up by NBC, the TV series will be called “Midnight, Texas.”
“All the books have great murders at the center,” Janollari says. “There are these great secrets and great romantic entanglements happening with this big mystery backdrop, though it’s the supernatural that will scare the hell out of you.”
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Harris is, of course, best known for her Sookie Stackhouse novels, on which HBO’s “True Blood” was based. Might we see stars like Oscar winner Anna Paquin in “Midnight, Texas”? Janollari says, “It’s not dependent on above-the-title names to be successful. In Charlaine’s books, it’s first and foremost all about the characters.”
Midnight Crossroad Synopsis:
Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up western town. There’s a pawn shop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).
Day Shift Synopsis:
There is no such thing as bad publicity, except in Midnight, Texas, where the residents like to keep to themselves. Even in a town full of secretive people, Olivia Charity is an enigma. She lives with the vampire Lemuel, but no one knows what she does; they only know that she’s beautiful and dangerous. Psychic Manfred Bernardo finds out just how dangerous when he goes on a working weekend to Dallas and sees Olivia there with a couple who are both found dead the next day. To make matters worse, one of Manfred’s regular—and very wealthy—clients dies during a reading. Manfred returns from Dallas embroiled in scandal and hounded by the press. He turns to Olivia for help; somehow he knows that the mysterious Olivia can get things back to normal. As normal as things get in Midnight…
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