The CW brings Nancy Drew to life on the small screen, which is another mystery drama series for the network and fans of Riverdale will surely love it.
Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenage detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine – until her mother’s untimely death derails Nancy’s college plans.
Devastated by her mother’s passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while crossing off the days until she can re-apply to college. But when a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group of other teens present at the scene: Nancy’s nemesis from high school, George Fan (Leah Lewis); a rich girl with a mysterious past, Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani); Nancy’s secret boyfriend, Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim); and amiable burnout Ace (Alex Saxon).
The five of them must team up to clear their own names – encountering emotional entanglements and even more mysteries along the way. Nancy’s reawakening brings her into conflict with her widowed father, Carson Drew (Scott Wolf), who is dating Detective Karen Hart (Alvina August).
And, when a supernatural presence begins to haunt Nancy’s investigation, she discovers that the current crime has an astonishing connection to the long unsolved murder of a local girl. Whether the ghost is here to help, or hinder Nancy remains to be seen, but one thing’s for sure: Nancy’s going to have to unravel the clues from both the living and the dead to solve the crimes.
At San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, lead actress Kennedy McMann said she’s been a fan of the detective since childhood. She told EW, “I think there’s a sense of her character that comes from the games and comes from the books that you only know intimately if you’ve really gotten to know them. There’s this cunning but this sense of humour mixed into it, and this sense of [how] she never doubts herself, that I really wanted to make sure stayed true [in] this representation of her.”
Meanwhile, executive producer Stephanie Savage explained some more about the series saying, “We started from the idea of everything that we loved about Nancy Drew, that she was brave and smart and fearless and stood up for herself, but there was also something else to Nancy Drew. She also had a darkness in her, so when we first sat down, [we asked ourselves], ‘Why is Nancy following these people into these dark alleys? And getting hit over the head with a candlestick and tied to a chair?’”
Starring Kennedy McMann, Maddison Jaizani (Versailles), Tunji Kasim (Florence Foster Jenkins), Alex Saxon (The Fosters), Scott Wolf (Party of Five), Alvina August (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Leah Lewis (Charmed). The series comes from writers/executive producers Noga Landau, Melinda Hsu Taylor, Josh Schwartz, and Stephanie Savage, along with co-executive producer Lis Rowinski. Larry Teng (The Walking Dead, Supergirl) direct and executive produces the pilot.
Nancy Drew premieres on October 9th 2019 at 9 PM ET on The CW.
