Back in October it was announced that Oscar winning actress Octavia Spencer would star in a re-imagining of the long-running TV series Murder She Wrote [click
here if you missed that].
Change of plans...
NBC has decided against moving forward with the project.
According to
Deadline, after filming a pilot with Octavia cast as a hospital administrator turned amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel, writers found rebooting the series too difficult and the idea was scrapped.