Grave Sight, True Blood creator Charlaine Harris' Harper Connelly series

[Specter313]

Hoping lightning will strike twice, CBS is adapting the Harper Connelly Mysteries by Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse thrillers on which HBO’s True Blood is based.

Called Grave Sight, after the first Harper Connelly novel, the series is produced by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, along with Naren Shankar (CSI), David Zucker and writer Kam Miller (Law & Order: SVU), Variety reports.


Debuting in 2005, the Harper Connelly Mysteries centers on a young woman who, as a teenager, was struck by lightning, leaving her with the ability to sense dead people and see how they passed away. Harper and her stepbrother Tolliver decide to make the best of her situation, and charge customers in need of her talents. To date, four books have been released in the series.


http://spinoff.comicbookresources.c...dapt-charlaine-harris-harper-connelly-novels/

 

[Jennifer Walters]

YES. Yes, now just get an equally good actress for Harper. <3

 

[Asgard]

Dont know anything about these novels, but Ghost Whisperer was a big success for CBS so this series might be a hit as well.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Harper's ability is very vaguely described in that paragraph. Basically she acts like a radar and finds the body then gets a flash of their last moment of their lives. It can be vague or really clear depending on how long they've been dead.

 

[Specter313]

True Blood author Charlaine Harris might end up with another hit supernatural drama series on the air.

Syfy has picked up the rights to her Harper Connelly Mysteries for a new series project in development titled Grave Sight.

Harris&#8217; four-book series, launched in 2005, follows a young woman who was struck by lightning as a teenager. Now in her 20s, she senses the location and last memories of dead people. In the Syfy adaptation, Connelly teams up with her protective stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, to help find a missing teenage girl, only to uncover a network of lies and murders throughout a small town in the Ozarks.

Kam Miller (Law and Order: SVU) is writing the pilot, which is being developed as a prospective drama series with Universal Cable Productions. Previously, CBS was developing a TV show based on the novels. Word that Syfy might have picked up the books first leaked onto some True Blood and Harris fan forums earlier this month. EW.com also first reported that Syfy is also developing a long-form version of Stephen King&#8217;s 1987 novel Eyes of the Dragon, a series based on the comic book Grey Legion and two high-concept movie projects. All these deals will be announced at the network&#8217;s upfront presentation to advertisers later today.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/04/24/harper-connelly-syfy/

 

[Sawyer]

Probably a better fit for Syfy than CBS. Lets just hope Syfy treats it as if they actually give a ****.

 

[Specter313]

Yeah, I think it will have a much better shot of success on SyFy rather than CBS. Genre shows like this can be a tougher sell on the bigger networks, and SyFy does have a tendency to stick by shows more, and don't need as big a numbers like CBS would for it to be a success.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

syfy is good station I feel, they're one of the least axe happy channels out there.

 

[Sawyer]

The thing about Syfy is that they're not so much the "Sci-fi channel" anymore, as much as they are the "****ty reality tv shows (with just a bit of good scripted original programming here and there) channel".

They need to fix that.

 

[Specter313]

Heh, the only reality show I watch of theirs is Face Off, and it's probably the only one worth watching, as I find it quite entertaining.

 

[Sawyer]

As their reality shows go, that one is probably the least offensive.

I'm just bored to tears by the Ghost Hunters shows. And whatever that blackout series is... its just a joke.