You’ll be seeing Mary Higgins Clark’s work in all the old familiar places—including your TV screen.
A new series based on Clark’s 1993 suspense novel I’ll Be Seeing You is currently in development, with Ilene Rosenzweig, a former writer and co-executive producer of the successful Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Station 19, set to write and executive-produce it, according to Deadline.
In the original book, a TV reporter, Meghan Collins, investigates the death of a woman in New York City who looks like she could be Meghan’s identical twin. The reporter’s sleuthing leads to own father, Edwin—thought to have died in a car accident months earlier—and to the murder of an embryologist; it also leads her across the country to Arizona, where her dad had a second family.
It’s the latest adaptation of the work of the 91-year-old Clark, who has written or co-written more than 40 novels in her career; her latest, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry, will be published next month. A few of her books, including 1975’s Where Are the Children? and 1977’s A Stranger Is Watching, have been made into theatrical films. Notably, the latter, released in 1982, was directed by horror-film icon Sean S. Cunningham, who’s best known for producing and directing the first Friday the 13th film.
Many more of Clark’s works have been adapted for television, however, including multiple TV movies for the PAX Network (now Ion Television) in the early 2000s. Its adaptation of I’ll Be Seeing You aired in 2004, starring Alison Eastwood as the lead—mysteriously renamed Patricia Collins. According to Deadline, the new series will also follow the adventures of Patricia Collins—nicknamed “Trie”—and involve a search for her missing dad.
David Rapp is the senior Indie editor.
