CBS Developing Cop Drama According To Leslie Glass April Woo Book Series

EXCLUSIVE: Leslie Glass’ popular April Woo number of suspense books is headed to TV. CBS has purchased a drama procedural in line with the 9 mystery books, which originates from Denis Leary and Jim Serpico’s Apostle production banner and CBS TV Galleries. Novelist and TV author Amy Blossom, creator from the Lifetime series Frame of mind, will write the script and can executive produce the project with Leary and Serpico. Glass’ April Woo mystery series focus on the title character, a brilliant youthful Chinese-American who becomes the very first female mind of detectives in Coney Island, New You are able to. Elevated within the traditions of modesty, politeness and quiet self-effacement, she's almost not a perfect fit to tackle Coney Island’s connected families, drug deals about the Boardwalk, feminist strippers, and corrupt political figures. The project comes from Apostle’s first-look cope with CBS TV Galleries for network TV. Creating a drama series having a female Asian lead is really a major part of diversity for that broadcast systems. The result is CBS’ recent casting of Black stars because the leads of three high-profile procedurals: LL Awesome J on NCIS: LA, Laurence Fishburne on CSI and Forest Whitaker on Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior. Additionally, it occurs the heels of CBS’ sister network starting the very first major drama series by having an Asian actress because the title character, thriller Nikita starring Maggie Q. The April Woo series spans 9 books released over 12 years: Burning Time (1993), Hanging Time (1995), Loving Time (1996), Knowing Time (1998), Stealing Time (1999), Monitoring Time (2000), The Quiet Bride (2002), A Killing Gift (2003), A Clean Kill (2005). Blossom and Apostle are repped by WME.