Two veteran producers associated with Fox team up for a drama project on the broadcast network.
The inhabitant co-creator and executive producer Amy Holden Jones and Matt Nix (Fire alarm) – who just signed a direct broadcast deal with Fox – are behind Archie & Petea buddy cop drama whose logline reads a bit like a gender-reversed one Bones. The project comes from Fox Entertainment Studios and is being developed on a script-to-series model.
Archie & Pete follows an explosive, rule-breaking, intrepid female detective with no filter who enlists the help of a polite and mild-mannered brainiac who studies the biology of evil to solve cases for the Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit. Jones is writing the script and will executive produce with Nix.
For Jones, the new project is in second place The inhabitant, which awaits word on its future after wrapping up its sixth season on Fox in January. Must have both The inhabitant And Archie & Pete moving on, she would be involved in both shows.
The project and newly signed live broadcast mark a return to Fox for Nix. Rather, he created and ran The gifted And The good guests joined the network and developed and co-showrunner the crime drama APB. He also created James Cameron’s series adaptation True lieswhich debuts March 1 on CBS.
