HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Best-selling crime novelist James
Ellroy (``L.A.
Confidential'') has signed a deal to write his first TV drama
pilot, a project
for NBC dubbed ``L.A. Sheriff's Homicide.''
The series will be based on Ellroy's experiences with the
homicide unit of the
Los Angeles County sheriff's department while he researched
the book ``My Dark
Places,'' which chronicled the investigation of his mother's
1958 murder.
NBC is considering the project for mid-season 1998-99 or the
fall of 1999.
Paramount's network TV unit is producing.
Ellroy's other page-turners include ``White Jazz,'' ``The
Black Dahlia'' and
``American Tabloid.''
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