A new crime drama series inspired by Sherlock Holmes’ arch-nemesis, James Moriarty, is in the works.
According to Fremantle, Moriarty (w/t) will be a modern reinvention of the crime procedural, based on the most famous villain in all of detective fiction.
James Moriarty is a Professor of Criminal Psychology at Durham University, but leads a secret double life as the mastermind behind every crime of sophistication in the North of England. When a rival criminal begins an assault on his underground empire, Moriarty will have only one choice: to join the police as a consultant, using the law as a weapon to dismantle his foe while keeping his true identity hidden from the police.
Paired with Detective Imogen Burrows, a stoic Yorkshire detective, they’ll form a fearsome team, but Moriarty will soon realise that the real threat isn’t the rival criminal faction he’s dismantling, but Imogen’s increasingly perceptive suspicions.
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