{"id":668871,"date":"2026-05-27T22:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:09:09","slug":"david-e-kelley-adapting-michael-connellys-nightshade-for-hbo-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/668871\/","title":{"rendered":"David E. Kelley Adapting Michael Connelly’s ‘Nightshade’ For HBO Max"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: As The Lincoln Lawyer is filming its fifth and final season<\/a>, David E. Kelley has set out to adapt another Michael Connelly\u00a0crime novel for television, the 2024 bestseller Nightshade<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe project, titled Welcome To Catalina<\/a>, is in development at HBO Max<\/a> under the streamer\u2019s model for drama procedurals intended to return each year with sizable orders and moderate cost. The model was introduced by the Emmy-winning medical drama The Pitt which produces 15 episodes a year. <\/p>\n

\n\tWritten by Kelley, Welcome To Catalina centers on Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Detective Stilwell who has been \u201cexiled\u201d to a low-key post policing rustic Catalina Island. But while following up the usual drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that come with his new territory, Stilwell gets a report of a body found weighed down at the bottom of the harbor.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelley executive produces with Matt Tinker, President of his David E. Kelley Productions, as well as The Lincoln Lawyer team of A+E Studios\u2019 Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson, Ross Fineman of Ross Fineman Entertainment and Connelly. HBO Max is the lead studio, with A+E Studios as co-studio. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Netflix\u2019s The Lincoln Lawyer, which Kelley created based on Connelly\u2019s novel The Brass Verdict, Kelley previously tackled Michael Connelly\u2019s short story Avalon. The adaptation, which was in the works at ABC, also was a cop drama set on Catalina Island with a female L.A. Sheriff\u2019s Department Detective lead, Nicole \u201cNic\u201d Searcy, played by Neve Campbell. It ultimately didn\u2019t move forward.<\/p>\n

\n\tAll of HBO Max\u2019s projects under the drama procedural model come from creators and showrunners with extensive broadcast experience who have delivered 20+ episodes a season. (Current pilots include<\/a> cop drama American Blue and family drama How To Survive Without Me.) Kelley certainly falls into that category with a slew of network hits earlier in his career such as the Emmy-winning The Practice and Ally McBeal and more recently Big Sky on ABC. Kelley\u2019s Connelly series adaptations as well as Big Sky have all been with Fineman and A+E Studios.<\/p>\n

\n\tDavid E. Kelley Productions\u2019 current slate includes The Lincoln Lawyer, Apple TV\u2019s new comedy series Margo\u2019s Got Money Troubles and drama Presumed Innocent, both headed into Season 2, HBO\u2019s Emmy-winning Big Little Lies, which is closing in on a third season, and the recently announced Myron Bolitar series for Netflix.<\/p>\n

\n\tKelley is repped by CAA and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: As The Lincoln Lawyer is filming its fifth and final season, David E. Kelley has set out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[292048,88,1010,282301,92,292049],"class_list":["post-668871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-david-e-kelley-adapting-michael-connelly","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo-max","tag-nightshade","tag-tv","tag-welcome-to-catalina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668871","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=668871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}