Prime Suspect Heads for U.S.

2 months ago 05th Sep 08:00

British TV drama Prime Suspect is to be remade in the U.S.

Dame Helen Mirren's award-winning British TV drama Prime Suspect is to be remade in the U.S.

The Queen actress is famed for her role as police chief Jane Tennison in the crime series, which ran from 1991 until 2006, for which she won two Emmy Awards.

Now television bosses in America want to base a new show on the hit programme's format, which will have its two-hour pilot written by Without A Trace's Hank Steinberg.

Hank Steinberg was key in helping us secure this project, and we are incredibly excited about this modern vision for the show

Nbc's Angela Bromstad says, "Our intention is to create another classic television show from this brilliant original format. Hank Steinberg was key in helping us secure this project, and we are incredibly excited about this modern vision for the show."

The programme marks a new collaboration between networks Itv and Nbc - earlier this year the British company signed up to create a U.K. version of Nbc's Law and Order.