David E. Kelley Gets Straight-To-Series Order at ABC For Adaptation of Michael Connelly's Short Story AVALON

David E. Kelley, known for creating fantastic TV series like Doogie Howser, M.D., Ally McBeal, The Practice, Big Little Lies, The Undoing, Nine Perfect Strangers, and many more, has gotten a straight-to-series order at ABC for the TV adaptation of Avalon, based on the short story by author Michael Connelly. Kelley has an adaptation of Connelly’s The Lincoln Lawyer in the works at Netflix as well.

Avalon, which is ABC’s first straight-to-series order for its 2022/23 programming slate, “takes place in the city of Avalon on Catalina Island, where LA Sheriff Department Detective Nicole ‘Nic’ Searcy heads up a small office. Catalina has a local population that serves more than 1 million tourists a year, and each day when the ferries arrive, hundreds of potential new stories enter the island. Detective Searcy is pulled into a career-defining mystery that will challenge everything she knows about herself and the island.”

Avalon was published last year as part of the When A Stranger Comes To Town short story collection. Kelley, who will write the pilot episode, created the series with Connelly and the pair will exec produce.

I am a huge fan of both Kelley and Connelly, and I look forward to this series, as well as The Lincoln Lawyer and another of Connelly’s adaptations, the spin-off series Bosch: Legacy, which are all due out later this year.