Louisthe British comedy-drama starring David Mitchell, is getting an American remake.
ABC has placed a pilot order for the project, which comes from Megan Ganz, Humphrey Ker, Jon Steinberg and Dan Shotz. 20th Television is the studio.
It comes after the BBC series, launching in the UK in 2024, became the most watched show in Britain in 2026 after the first episode of season 2 was watched by more than 9 million viewers.
Louis stars Mitchell as John Taylor, a reclusive puzzle maker who pretends to be his brother when he disappears and infiltrates the local police station to investigate, before finding himself embroiled in other cases.
Rabbit will follow a similar path. After the disappearance of his homicide detective twin brother, Mark, a reclusive puzzle writer known as Rabbit, is pulled from his solitary life and sent to the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department, where he poses as his brother to investigate his mysterious disappearance. But soon, Mark discovers that his uncanny ability to solve impossible puzzles makes him an unlikely crime-solving sensation, according to the logline.
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Louis was created by Mark Brotherhood (Mount Pleasant) and produced by ITV-owned Big Talk.
Rabbit will be written by Ganz, who wrote about Mythic Quest, it’s always sunny in Philadelphia And Modern family and is under a combination at 20th Studios, and Ker, who wrote on Mythic Quest and was executive director of Wrexham AFC, as seen in FX’s Welcome to Wrexham.
The duo will produce alongside Percy Jackson and the Olympians showrunner Steinberg and executive producer Shotz. David Mitchell, Mark Brotherhood and Big Talk boss Kenton Allen will also executive produce.
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Rabbit This is the last European format remade in the United States in recent years. Fox has remade a British medical comedy Doc Martin as Best medicine, which returned for its second season last month; Docwhich returns for its third season, is based on an Italian drama, and its Memory of a Killer is based on a Belgian film By Zaak Alzheimer. CBS has Einsteina police procedural based on a German series, and ABC has High potentialrenewed for a third season, based on the French series HPI.
Louiswhich has been renewed for a third season and a Christmas special by the BBC, returns to BritBox on October 13.
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