Duvall has second bite of Cracker
- Published: 30 June 2008 11:40
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Hollywood actor Robert Duvall is backing a second attempt at remaking ITV1's crime drama Cracker for the US.
Granada America has sold the format rights to Jimmy McGovern's 1990s series to cable network TNT. The two companies will co-produce the series, which will be executive produced by Butchers Run, which is co-owned by Duvall and Robert Carliner.
A previous attempt to refashion Cracker for the US ran for just one season on ABC in 1997 and was later aired on ITV1.
The latest version will be written by Jason Horwitch, whose credits include NBC's Medical Investigation.
"It was such a success in the U.K. and around the world -- such a great character and also a great procedural," Granada America senior vice-president Julie Meldal-Johnsen told the Hollywood Reporter.
"We thought the timing was right and that American cable, edgier and more open, would be a better venue for it than broadcast."
Granada America will own all rights to the show outside North America and also recently sold the rights to ITV drama Eleventh Hour to CBS and McGovern's current BBC1 drama The Street to Fox.
