Last summer
I reported on news Syfy were planning to remake
Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased), the supernatural crime drama about a private investigator who receives help from his dead business partner. The show ran from 1969-70 in the UK, before it was renamed
My Partner The Ghost and aired in syndication across the US in 1972. A British remake was produced in 2000 for the BBC, starring comedians
Vic Reeves and
Bob Mortimer, but was axed in 2001. Syfy now have the rights to the series, having bought them from ITV last May, and the development of a full-blown US remake is beginning to take shape. Writers
Jane Espenson (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica) and
Drew Z. Greenberg (Dexter, Warehouse 13) have been tasked to write a pilot. The story broke at
The Hollywood Reporter today.