Octavia Spencer to Star in "Murder, She Wrote" TV Reboot

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This is big: According to a report on Deadline, NBC is developing a reboot classic Angela Lansbury-starring series, Murder, She Wrote, and has enlisted The Help star Octavia Spencer to star. 

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Lansbury has reportedly been approached to be apart of the reboot in some form, and Desperate Housewives executive producer Alexandra Cunningham will write and executive produce. Can we talk about how awesome this casting is? It's awesome. 

Spencer, who is an Oscar winner with a huge film career, explained why she decided to do a television show in an interview with Deadline: "I’ve always considered myself an armchair detective and in a recent meeting with [NBC chairman] Bob Greenblatt, he asked me what type of character would be able to lure me to TV. Naturally, I said ‘J.B. Fletcher’ meets ‘Colombo’ …  And here we are."

[via Deadline]

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