{"id":412382,"date":"2026-01-17T06:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412382\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:16:07","slug":"nbc-orders-dick-wolf-pilot-what-the-dead-know-puzzle-master-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412382\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Orders Dick Wolf Pilot ‘What the Dead Know,’ ‘Puzzle Master’ Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIt\u2019s raining pilot orders at NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe network will take a chance on two new drama projects, titled \u201cPuzzled\u201d and \u201cWhat the Dead Know.\u201d This caps off a week in which NBC announced six pilot orders for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom \u201cCharmed\u201d and \u201cSleepy Hollow\u201d writer Joey Falco, \u201cPuzzled\u201d is based on the \u201cPuzzle Master\u201d books by Danielle Trussoni. \u201cAfter barely escaping a tragic fire, once promising college athlete Mike Brink is transformed by a traumatic brain injury that gives him the unique ability to see the world in an unexpected way and helps him solve crimes with local police,\u201d according to the logline. Jordan Cerf executive produces alongside Falco, and Trussoni is a producer. The studio is Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.<\/p>\n

\n\tLegendary \u201cLaw & Order\u201d creator Dick Wolf<\/a> serves as an executive producer on the other pilot, \u201cWhat the Dead Know,\u201d from Beth Rinehart (\u201cFBI: Most Wanted,\u201d \u201cLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit\u201d). The series is based on the memoir by former New York City medical examiner Barbara Butcher. Per the logline: \u201cDeath Investigator Ava Ledger is really good with dead bodies. It\u2019s the living that give her trouble.\u201d The show follows Ava as she teams up with the NYPD to solve their toughest cases. The executive producers include Tom Thayer, Peter Jankowski and Anastasia Puglisi; Co-EPs are Kevin Plunkett, Rebecca McGill and Butcher. Wolf Entertainment produces, and Universal Television is the studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier on Friday, NBC announced a pilot order<\/a> for a detective comedy from \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d co-creator\u00a0Dan Goor\u00a0and executive producer\u00a0Luke Del Tredici. On Thursday, the network announced a drama pilot<\/a> from Dean Georgaris and John Fox, inspired by the real-life FBI research of Dr. Ann Burgess. And earlier this week, the network announced a drama pilot<\/a> order from Josh Safran, Jenna Bush Hager and Ben Spector called \u201cProtection,\u201d about a family of law enforcement agents becoming the target of a mysterious assassin. Plus, NBC gave a pilot order<\/a> to a \u201ccontemporary update\u201d on \u201cThe Rockford Files\u201d from Mike Daniels (\u201cSons of Anarchy\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s raining pilot orders at NBC. The network will take a chance on two new drama projects, titled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[197827,88,1254,92],"class_list":["post-412382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-dick-wolf","tag-entertainment","tag-nbc","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}