How do you know CBS’ The Mentalist is a big hit? First ABC sets up Penn & Teller’s new hour-long comedy where the famous stage magicians play “reluctant detectives” and now NBC is working on their own version of a magician using magic skills to solve crimes serial.
As per Variety…
The concept centers on a master magician whose career is in ruins after he develops stage fright and agoraphobia; an elite law enforcement agency recruits him to take an unusual approach to cracking tough cases.
“It won’t be as much of a whodunit as a ‘how the hell do we catch him,’ ” Amiel told Daily Variety. Percelay approached Amiel with his one-line description of the project, which felt “totally in my wheelhouse,” Amiel said. The two developed it together and then scouted for a writer.
Your move, FOX…