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Kevin Smith is behind a new live action series based on Todd McFarlane’s detectives Sam and Twitch, introduced in his Spawn comics two decades ago.

“He is attached to write, direct and [executive produce] a series based on the Sam And Twitch comic book series for us,” BBC America boss Sarah Barnett told Deadline. “It’s Todd McFarlane’s comic book series about these big-city homicide detectives who face a series of super grizzly crimes that are connected to the occult. It’s kind of frightening and sort of gallows humor. It’s, again, procedural [like Dirk Gently], but in a very modern, contemporary way. So each episode is closed ended, although there are certain character-serialized aspects to the storytelling.”

The series is currently in development, with no set date for transmission.