The project received a pilot order but was not picked up to series — the same fate that awaited NBC’s 2017 Nancy Drew pilot, which was to follow the author of the teen girl detective books, who was suddenly faced with an actual murder mystery.
The network’s version of a Nancy Drew series will center on the titular, 18-year-old detective during the summer after her high school graduation.
The biggest Nancy Drew mystery of all is upon us once again: Will the beloved sleuth make a return to TV?
The mystery novels have already been brought to the small screen three times: The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, which ran from 1977 to 1979; the one-and-done 1995 Nancy Drew series; and the 2002 TV movie (originally intended as a series), which starred Maggie Lawson in the title role.