The CW is looking back at its WB roots. The network is teaming with The Originals producer Carina MacKenzie for a timely reboot based on the Melinda Metz book Roswell High that also spawned the Jason Katims drama that originally aired on the WB for its first two seasons before moving to UPN for its third and final season.
The project, which is in development at the younger-skewing network, has an immigrant twist. Here’s the official logline: “After reluctantly returning to her tourist-trap hometown of Roswell, New Mexico, the daughter of undocumented immigrants discovers a shocking truth about her teenage crush who is now a police officer: he’s an alien who has kept his unearthly abilities hidden his entire life. She protects his secret as the two reconnect and begin to investigate his origins, but when a violent attack and long-standing government cover-up point to a greater alien presence on Earth, the politics of fear and hatred threaten to expose him and destroy their deepening romance.
The original series, produced by Regency Television and 20th Century Fox Television, was developed for Fox and was based on the YA book series Roswell High by Metz and Laura J. Burns. Jason Behr, Katherine Heigl and Brendan Fehr starred as alien/human hybrids and Shiri Appleby as the human who fell in love with Behr’s Max. The drama explored topics including forbidden love.
MacKenzie will exec produce the drama, which hails from Warner Bros. Television, Amblin Television and Bender Brown Productions.Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank will exec produce. Lawrence Bender and Kevin Kelly Brown will exec produce for Bender Brown. Brown was among the exec producers on the Katims drama that starred Shiri Appleby and Jason Behr and ran for three seasons on The WB Network (which became The CW) and UPN.
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