Exclusive: CBS is taking another shot at adapting the German police procedural dramedy Einstein, this time with major changes to the original concept.
The 2017 German series was a police procedural dramedy about the unknown great-great-grandson of Albert Einstein, a theoretical physics professor, who helps the police in solving murder cases.
The CBS take, written/executive produced by Insatiable creator Lauren Gussis and executive produced by American Gothic creator Corinne Brinkerhoff, centers on a roguish, out-of-the-box-thinking physics professor who happens to be the secret, illegitimate great-granddaughter of Albert Einstein. She begrudgingly partners with a Boston homicide detective not only to help solve the most puzzling of crimes, but also to address the problems ever-present inside the institution of policing itself.
In addition to switching the gender of the Einstein great-grandchild title character, the adaptation also provides 2020 perspective on policing, which has come under major scrutiny following the death of George Floyd.
The 2017 German series was a police procedural dramedy about the unknown great-great-grandson of Albert Einstein, a theoretical physics professor, who helps the police in solving murder cases.
The CBS take, written/executive produced by Insatiable creator Lauren Gussis and executive produced by American Gothic creator Corinne Brinkerhoff, centers on a roguish, out-of-the-box-thinking physics professor who happens to be the secret, illegitimate great-granddaughter of Albert Einstein. She begrudgingly partners with a Boston homicide detective not only to help solve the most puzzling of crimes, but also to address the problems ever-present inside the institution of policing itself.
In addition to switching the gender of the Einstein great-grandchild title character, the adaptation also provides 2020 perspective on policing, which has come under major scrutiny following the death of George Floyd.
- 10/29/2020
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Monk creator/executive producer Andy Breckman has re-teamed with the series’ director/executive producer Randy Zisk for another hourlong procedural about a brilliant detective.
CBS has put in development Einstein, based on the German series, from the Monk duo, Tariq Jalil’s Intrigue Entertainment ,Red Arrow Studios International, which is behind the original German format, and CBS Television Studios.
Written by Breckman, Einstein is about the brilliant but directionless great grandson of Albert Einstein, who spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor, until his bad boy antics land him in trouble with the law and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective solve her most puzzling cases.
Breckman executive produces with Zisk, who also directs. James Baker, Bo Stehmeier, Shirley Bowers executive produce for Red Arrow Studios International, as well as Intrigue’s Tariq Jalil, Lucas Carter and Joe Wiggins, and Howard Klein for 3 Arts Entertainment.
CBS has put in development Einstein, based on the German series, from the Monk duo, Tariq Jalil’s Intrigue Entertainment ,Red Arrow Studios International, which is behind the original German format, and CBS Television Studios.
Written by Breckman, Einstein is about the brilliant but directionless great grandson of Albert Einstein, who spends his days as a comfortably tenured professor, until his bad boy antics land him in trouble with the law and he is pressed into service helping a local police detective solve her most puzzling cases.
Breckman executive produces with Zisk, who also directs. James Baker, Bo Stehmeier, Shirley Bowers executive produce for Red Arrow Studios International, as well as Intrigue’s Tariq Jalil, Lucas Carter and Joe Wiggins, and Howard Klein for 3 Arts Entertainment.
- 9/5/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
NBC has put in development Einstein, based on the popular German series, from writer Michael Reisz (Shadowhunters), Carol Mendelsohn, Tariq Jalil’s Intrigue Entertainment and Universal TV, where Mendelsohn’s Carol Mendelsohn Prods. is based.
tWritten by Reisz, Einstein follows a whip-smart, smooth-talking and illegitimate descendant of Albert Einstein who is recruited by the police for his skills at solving particularly complex cases.
Reisz executive produces with Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz via Carol Mendelsohn Prods., Jan David Frouman, Henrik Pabst, and Shirley Bowers of Red Arrow Studios International, which is behind the original German format, as well as Intrigue’s Tariq Jalil. Joe Wiggins and Lucas Carter co-produce for Intrigue. Universal TV produces in association with Carol Mendelsohn Productions and Intrigue.
Written by Martin Ritzenhoff and Matthias Dinter, the German series Einstein is a police procedural dramedy based on their 2015 film. It premiered on pay-tv channel Sat.1 Emotions in January...
tWritten by Reisz, Einstein follows a whip-smart, smooth-talking and illegitimate descendant of Albert Einstein who is recruited by the police for his skills at solving particularly complex cases.
Reisz executive produces with Mendelsohn and Julie Weitz via Carol Mendelsohn Prods., Jan David Frouman, Henrik Pabst, and Shirley Bowers of Red Arrow Studios International, which is behind the original German format, as well as Intrigue’s Tariq Jalil. Joe Wiggins and Lucas Carter co-produce for Intrigue. Universal TV produces in association with Carol Mendelsohn Productions and Intrigue.
Written by Martin Ritzenhoff and Matthias Dinter, the German series Einstein is a police procedural dramedy based on their 2015 film. It premiered on pay-tv channel Sat.1 Emotions in January...
- 10/31/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva and Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
COLOGNE, Germany -- Swiss-based indie distributor Falcom Media is kickstarting its in-house production business with a parody of the Rat Pack movies and an adaptation of German best seller Lilla, Lilla, Falcom announced Wednesday. Die Grossartigen 13 (The Fantastic 13) is described as a tongue-in-cheek parody of Rat Pack films like Ocean's Eleven and will be written by German comedy veterans Matthias Dinter and Martin Ritzenhoff ("If It Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer"). The satire Lilla, Lilla, based on the novel by Martin Suter, tells the story of a bartender who passes off a stranger's novel as his own, earning fame, fortune and the attentions of a certain lady before the real author shows up to collect.
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