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On 2026-07-08 22:01:53 +0000, moviePig said:
On 6/20/2026 2:40 AM, Your Name wrote:
ABC Teams With CSI Veterans on New Crime Series Adaptation
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ABC has partnered with CSI veterans to adapt a bestselling
crime-thriller book series into a TV show. It will be based
on Andrew Mayne's popular novels.
Andrew Mayne's bestselling crime novels are headed to ABC
Andrew Mayne's The Naturalist book series is being adapted
into a TV series by ABC, according to Variety. The
adaptation is now in active development.
The upcoming series has been described as a procedural that
focuses on a "brilliant but socially estranged biologist who
uses the laws of animal behavior to hunt human predators."
A key element of the story is that the protagonist harbors
mysteries of his own, and he turns every case into a study
of himself.
Andrew Karlsruher, who has worked previously on MacGyver and
CSI: Cyber, will write The Naturalist alongside Danny Cannon,
who directed the original CSI pilot. He has also
executive-produced and directed pilots for shows including
Nikita, Gotham, and Pennyworth.
Cannon is also an executive producer on ABC's upcoming TV
show alongside Peter Jaysen and Alan Gasmer. Andy Cutler is
serving as the producer.
The Naturalist book series kicked off in 2017 with the first
part. Its sequels include 2018's Looking Glass, 2019's Murder
Theory, and Dark Pattern, which was also published in 2019.
The series has been an Amazon Charts bestseller. The first
novel in the franchise was even nominated for an International
Thriller Writers Award in the best original paperback novel
category in 2019.
Besides The Naturalist, author Andrew Mayne has written other
books as well, such as The Girl Beneath the Sea and Angel
Killer. His next book, The Session, will be published in
October 2026.
The Naturalist has yet to receive an official release date
window. The upcoming series comes from Veritas Entertainment,
a media and entertainment company that was founded by Jaysen
and Gasmer.
<https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/2151055-abc-developing-crime-drama-the-naturalist-csi-veterans>
I inferred from this that the book ('The Naturalist' by Andrew Mayne)
might in fact be a recommendable thriller. And so it turned out to be ...including in ways that seem ill-suited to a TV adaptation.
I wouldn't worry about it. Adaptations never stick teh the source
material anyway ... the Hollyweird idiot in charge always "knows
better" than the person who created it. :-\
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