‘Avalon’ Not Going Ahead At ABC; David E. Kelley Drama Neve Campbell – Deadline

ABC has handed on David E. Kelley’s crime drama collection Avalon, starring Neve Campbell, after it was handed a straight-to-series order in February.

The Disney-owned community just isn’t transferring ahead with the undertaking, which relies on a Michael Connelly brief story, after it noticed the pilot episode.

Whereas uncommon for a straight-to-series order, ABC does have an choice to not take such exhibits ahead after receiving the primary reduce, and clearly Disney is a component proprietor in A+E Studios, which was producing with twentieth Tv.

The transfer echoes ABC’s cross on the Alec Baldwin/Kelsey Grammer-fronted multi-cam comedy final 12 months.

Deadline understands that A+E Networks will discover its choices and try and promote it to a different community or streamer. A+E Networks was profitable in purchasing considered one of its different Kelley tasks, The Lincoln Lawyer, to Netflix after CBS handed, although that one resulted in a lawsuit.

Avalon, which acquired a straight-to-series order from ABC in February, takes place within the metropolis of Avalon on Catalina Island, the place L.A. Sheriff’s Division Detective Nicole “Nic” Searcy (Campbell) heads up a small workplace. Catalina has an area inhabitants that serves greater than 1 million vacationers a 12 months, and every day when the ferries arrive, tons of of potential new tales enter the island. Detective Searcy is pulled right into a career-defining thriller that may problem every thing she is aware of about herself and the island.

Campbell’s Nic is the lone detective assigned to the Catalina Island substation. Considerably inscrutable, Nic isn’t simply intimidated and holds agency to her morals. Sarcastically, her sturdy ethical compass is what acquired her banished to Catalina’s greatest metropolis, Avalon. It’s a gig no career-driven L.A. cop needs, however Nic quickly discovers her beneficial detective expertise are wanted extra on Avalon than she may have imagined.

It additionally stars Demetrius Grosse, Alexa Mansour, Steven Pasquale and Roslyn Ruff.

Avalon is created and govt produced by Kelley, who wrote the pilot episode, and Connelly. Dana Calvo was tapped as showrunner and govt produces with Ross Fineman of Fineman Leisure and Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson for A+E Studios.