Crave Orders Highmore & Shore Drama Series
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- Crave, the Bell Media-owned Canadian streamer, ordered the drama series "I'm Not Here to Hurt You" from Freddie Highmore, David Shore, and Sony Pictures Television, with John Morayniss' Blink49 Studios co-producing.
- Sony plans to pitch the show to U.S. and international buyers at the L.A. Screenings this week—an unusual joint-commission arrangement the source describes as evidence of Sony's confidence in major-territory demand.
- The series is adapted from a 2023 Irish Independent podcast of the same name hosted by Kevin Doyle, and follows an upstanding family man who, after killing someone in a bicycle accident, spirals into a life of crime driven by wanting never to hurt anyone again.
- Shore and Highmore previously ran ABC's "The Good Doctor" together for seven seasons (2017–2024), and Shore is also prepping NBC's "The Rockford Files" remake starring David Boreanaz and the legal drama "Conviction" with Elisabeth Moss.
- Crave is the same streamer behind "Heated Rivalry," the hockey romance drama that became a worldwide hit after HBO acquired it—context the source explicitly frames as the momentum Crave is trying to build on.
- Highmore is repped by Artists Rights Group, CAA, and Toczek Suddleson; Shore by CAA, Larry Shuman of the Shuman Co., and attorney Bill Sobel.
Why it matters: The deal is a deliberate play by Crave to extend the breakout momentum of 'Heated Rivalry' by attaching a globally proven showrunner-creator duo, while Sony's joint-commission structure lets it shoulder international sales risk by shopping the title directly to buyers at the L.A. Screenings before any U.S. network is locked in.
