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Jan. 22, 2014 / 11:34 AM

'Murder She Wrote' reboot nixed at NBC

Actress Octavia Spencer arrives on the red carpet for the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards gala presented by the Los Angeles Times at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on October 21, 2013. The event honors excellence in the art of filmmaking as well as creative talent within the global community. UPI/Jim Ruymen

Actress Octavia Spencer arrives on the red carpet for the 17th annual Hollywood Film Awards gala presented by the Los Angeles Times at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on October 21, 2013. The event honors excellence in the art of filmmaking as well as creative talent within the global community. UPI/Jim Ruymen | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- NBC has decided not to proceed with a reboot of the U.S. television mystery series "Murder, She Wrote," starring Octavia Spencer, Deadline.com reported.

The proposed series was to follow a hospital administrator and amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel.

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NBC ordered a pilot starring Spencer last fall, but has since opted not to order a series based on it.

The original show ran from 1984 to 1996 and featured Angela Lansbury as a Maine mystery writer who found herself at the scenes of crimes wherever she went.

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