Barry Gordon’s XLrator Media and Mario Van Peebles’ new TV outfit Mvptv will produce the 13-episode direct-to-series order.

Production is set to begin in early 2017 and will air later in the year on Syfy.

Van Peebles will also write, direct and star in some of the episodes. Joel Anderson Thompson (Battlestar Galactica, Boomtown, House M.D.) has been brought on as showrunner and Laurence Andries (Alias, Six Feet Under, Supernatural, The Pacific) will serve as executive producer.

Writing team Brusta Brown and John Mitchell Todd have also boarded the series. XLrator Media holds international rights.

The series centres on the Mosley family, owners of the only funeral home in a fictitious town on the outskirts of New Orleans and keepers of the town’s dark secrets and history.

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