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ABC is developing an RJ Decker television series , sport the shuffle private eye bomber from the Carl Hiaasen novel duple Whammy .
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ABC has picked up the drama pilotRJ Decker , based onCarl Hiaasen ’s 1987 novelDouble Whammyfeaturing his wisecrack grinder RJ Decker , a disgraced newspaper photographer and ex - gyp , who starts over as a private investigator in the colorful - if - crime - filled world of South Florida , tackle cases that range from slightly odd to instantaneously bizarre with the supporter of his diary keeper X , her police detective wife , and a shadowy raw helper , a cleaning lady from his past who could be his greatest ally … or his one - way ticket back to prison .
The one - time of day original hail from author andAbbot Elementaryexecutive producerRob Doherty , withPaul McGuiganattached to direct and executive produce . Hiaasen is also an executive manufacturer , along withCarl BeverlyandSarah Timbermanof Timberman / Beverly Productions , with twentieth Televisionserving as the studio apartment .
In the original Koran , R. J. Decker , wiz tenant of the local laggard park and neophyte individual eye , is fishing for a cause of death . Thanks to a sport ’s scam that ’s anything but sportsmanlike , there ’s a trunk floating in Coon Bog , Florida – and a lot that ’s crappy in the murky amnionic fluid of big - stakes , gravid - sass bass tournament . Here Decker will team up up with a half - unreasoning , half - delirious solitary with an appetite for road kill ; dare to kiss his ex - wife while she ’s in seam with her newfangled married man ; and face deadly television receiver evangelists , dangerously seductive women , and a pistol - toting redneck with a nether region bull on his arm . And here his own life becomes part of the stakes . For while the " double hex " is the lure , first prize is for the most ingenious slaying .
This is the latest endeavor to adapt a Carl Hiaasen novel for television in late years , and frankly , the more the alert . Apple TV+currently has the gleeful and hilariousBad MonkeystarringVince Vaughnfrom showrunnerBill Lawrence , based on Hiaasen ’s novel of the same name . The show was renewed for a second season in December . Lawrence is also developing another Hiaasen novel , Skinny Dip , at Max with Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis .
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