


When word broke four years ago that CBS was developing a new series with a couple of Grey’s Anatomy executive producers about an all grown-up Nancy Drew as an NYPD detective, I remember loudly asking to no one in particular, “Why?!?” Taking the story of a classic teen super-sleuth from a small town and turning it into a NYC-set police procedural about an adult woman seemed at once an inexplicable and downright predictable move by America’s parents’ favorite broadcast network.
