It’s been over a year and a different network since we last brought you guys details of the supernatural comedy, Strange Calls. The last we heard, the show based on an Australian show of the same name was trying to get picked up over at ABC back in 2013 but now it seems that NBC has given the show a pilot order.
Strange Calls has received a pilot pickup at NBC. Apparently, the reason the show didn’t move forward with ABC was because the network couldn’t cast a lead. NBC expressed interest, and the project migrated to the network with a new writer, Blake McCormick (Cougar Town).
Based on an Australian format, Strange Calls centers on an affable but down on his luck young police officer. He is transferred to a rural town where — with the help of a peculiar, elderly night watchman — he starts to realize the town has a bizarre supernatural underbelly.
McCormick executive produces with Kaplan and Tracey Robertson and Nathan Mayfield, executive producers of the original series, which was produced by their company Hoodlum. 20th Century Fox TV, which had been behind the adaptation since its previous incarnations, is producing with Kapital Entertainment and Hoodlum.
Source: Deadline
