BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books

Subject: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 19 - 07:29 PM

The network television channel that goes by CW
is seriously preparing a new series
that will use the actual 'Nancy Drew' books.
Announcements are in the press
about the casting of various actors,
and the order placed for a pilot episode.

I know there have been isolated forays into Nancy Drew land
on film,
but this is the first that I have heard
of the development of a multi-episode series
that references the novels.

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 02 Apr 19 - 08:48 PM

Well, there was this, but I think it used new plots.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardy_Boys/Nancy_Drew_Mysteries
I read the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books. When it came to female detectives in books written for tweens and teens, I preferred Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames, and Vicki Barr.
Maybe I resented Nancy's upper-middle class background: lawyer father, housekeeper, blue roadster given to her by daddy. She tootled around in that car never worrying about who'd pay for gas, insurance, maintenance, etc. She solved mysteries but never was paid. Instead she received momentos of each case, and apparently her home had room for all of them. She didn't go to school or earn money at a job.
Trixie was about 13 when that series started. She had two older brothers and a younger one whom she looked after. He was always getting into mischief. She had chores on the family farm, and she grew up in the series.
Cherry Ames was a student nurse in the first book. The other books had her whole class sign up to be army nurses in WW II. In one book she became an army nurse caring for the wounded as they were flown to places where they could be treated after they'd been stabilized near the front. Later books tell about her working at a series of nursing jobs in different places. I remember one in which she worked on a dude ranch in the Southwest.
Vicki Barr was a flight attendant. That series started with her in training. In later books she flew to different parts of the world.
There was another mystery series, too, but I can't remember the main character's name. She was probably a high school student in the first book. The series followed her well into adulthood. She married a lawyer who became an FBI agent. They adopted a daughter whose family they'd tried to locate in one book. The child was called Bobbi, which they thought was short for Barbara, but it turned out it was short for Roberta--or maybe it was the other way around. I think the main character worked in the law office of the man she married until who began working for the FBI. I'm not sure she had a job after that, but many married women/moms didn't work outside the home then.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardy_Boys/Nancy_Drew_Mysteries

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Apr 19 - 09:54 AM

I was unaware --
having given up comic books longer ago than I can recall --
that "Nancy Drew"
had been introduced in recent years
to comic book issues,

and that the recent feature film
possibly connects back to those comic books
with both Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys in them.

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: Mrrzy
Date: 05 Apr 19 - 10:56 PM

Who's gonna play Ned?

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: gillymor
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 05:56 AM

I have some limited experience playing Ned Nickerson, of course I was 4 or 5 at the time and following my big sister around as she recreated Nancy Drew capers. Then, thankfully, I discovered sports.

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 12:27 PM

If I knew the direct answer to Mrrzy's question,
I would submit it now.
When I look up the media coverage of the pilot in particular,
and the press releases about this series in general,
the Ned Nickerson question goes unaddressed.

There are three writers; including a team of two writers
who wrote for CW's Gossip Girl.

Nancy Drew :   Kennedy McMahon
This young actress "recently graduating from Carnegie Mellon last year."
Carson Drew, the widower father:   Freddie Prinze Jr.
Harriet Grosset :      Pamela Sue Martin
"George" (a girl) : Leah Lewis
Nick [not Ned] :   Tunji Kasim
Detective Karen Hunt :   Alvina August   
Bess    :    Maddison Jaizani   

"[The writers,] interestingly enough, have decided to follow the amateur sleuth
before her time solving mysteries
with her usual gang
that are present with her throughout most of the books." (mxdwn)


Actor Tunji Kasim,
whose character may or may not be related to Ned Nickerson,
was in the Meryl Streep film
"Florence Foster Jenkins,"
according to the article.

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 19 - 12:41 PM

Should have gone here first ...
this comes from the website "Deadline."

The CW's Nancy Drew Pilot.

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: leeneia
Date: 09 Apr 19 - 11:38 AM

I enjoyed Nancy Drew books when I was a kid. I like reading the solution to a puzzle. The roadster, the friends made no particular impression on me.

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: keberoxu
Date: 09 Apr 19 - 04:45 PM

As in the existing Nancy Drew canon,
the father is alive and well,
but Nancy Drew's mother is deceased
when the stories open.

In the version being developed for the CW network,
there will be a link to Nancy Drew's departed mother
in the form of a woman police detective
with whom ND's mother was a close friend.

A variation
that I don't remember from any of the books
that I read when I was little.

Subject: RE: BS: potential TV series, 'Nancy Drew' books
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Apr 19 - 02:02 AM

It's amazing how many fictional characters have deceased mothers. I'm sure Nancy would have had far fewer adventures and a more sensible car if her mother had been around.