NBC Adapts '66th North Precinct' From Arika Mittman — SkimNews
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- NBC is developing an untitled drama adapted from Finland's "66th North Precinct," with Arika Lisanne Mittman attached as creator and showrunner, produced by Elevate Entertainment and Universal Television.
- Arika Lisanne Mittman is best known for creating and showrunning NBC's "The Irrational" (starring Jesse L. Martin, two seasons), and previously showran Spectrum's "Paradise Lost" and NBC's "Timeless," with additional credits as EP of "La Brea" and work on "Dexter," "Elementary," and "Tyrant."
- The untitled project's logline follows a former pro boxer who returns with her family to her southern Colorado hometown, rebuilding her life as a sheriff's deputy solving case-of-the-week crimes while juggling her marriage, children, and unfinished business in the ring.
- Finland's "66th North Precinct" premiered in 2023, starred Saara Kotkaniemi as lead Maria Pujos, was set in Lapland — billed as the largest police precinct in the world — and drew inspiration from real bizarre crimes in that region; its second season aired last year.
- Elevate Entertainment — with executive producers Alex Cole and Joe Wiggins — notches its second U.S. broadcast sale this season, following ABC's "The Undertaker," adapted from the Swiss police procedural "Der Bestatte."
Why it matters: NBC is now the second U.S. broadcast buyer this season from Elevate Entertainment, which placed ABC's 'The Undertaker' (from Swiss source 'Der Bestatte') earlier — establishing Elevate as a credible pipeline for international procedural adaptations and giving Mittman a third NBC series after 'The Irrational' and 'Timeless.'
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