Help director Tate Taylor is teaming up with
Warren Littlefield to develop a new TV series
based on the 1967 Best Picture winner In The
Heat Of The Night.
The original film starred Sidney Poitier as an
Africa-American detective named Virgil Tibbs,
who is asked to investigate a murder in a
racially volatile Southern town. Rod Steiger won
an Oscar for playing the small-town sheriff who
objects to Mr. Tibbs' presence.
The new series will be set in present day
Mississippi, Tate Taylor's home state, examining
race, inequality and prejudice through
contemporary characters. The project will be
shopped to cable networks over the next few
weeks.
During his time as an NBC programming
executive, Warren Littlefield developed an earlier
version of In the Heat of the Night TV series
which starred Carroll O'Connor and Howard E.
Rollins Jr. The show ran between 1988 and
1995, with four seasons airing on NBC and CBS
picking up the remainder of the series.
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