(UPI) -- Octavia Spencer will step into Angela Lansbury's iconic role as Jessica Fletcher, the mystery novelist and amateur sleuth of Murder, She Wrote, which aired on CBS from 1984 to 1996.
NBC's rebooted version of the popular series will star Oscar-winner Spencer as a hospital administrator who's just published her first mystery novel. She uses her keen observational skills to help investigators solve "sensational" mysteries of the day.