Worst revival idea:

Verity Creek. Gay. Super hip. Not focused on puzzles but on “neuro-scientific principles.” Bwahahahaah. I actually can’t believe Netflix passed on it because it sounds exactly like a Netflix original (single season show, of course.)

The Wikipedia page about JC adaptations apparently is wrong on two fronts. Whoopi Goldberg would have just been a guest star in one episode of her production company’s adaptation, not the star. And Jonathan wouldn’t have been gay in the Netflix adaptation, the lead would be named Verity. Presumably in honor of the producer, Lamber, at least name-wise. Sounds like a perfectly trashy piece of 2020s crap. I don’t think the world needs another genius, “hip” lesbian anything never mind a Jonathan Creek show, but I am surprised Netflix agrees.

Would anyone here like to see that crap? I think we all want to see Davies and Quentin have one last adventure together, am I right or am I right? (Unlikely given how you can’t find a photo of the two of them together after all this time. Not once has any magazine or tv show asked them to reunite? Wonder what happened there. The show was never as good without Quentin.)



I’d love to read any unused scripts for any failed Jonathan Creek project but most of all I’d like to read the ones written by Mr. Renwick. I always hoped he’d write a Creek novel. Anyway, here’s a quote from the man himself about the above.

“Even more recently BBC America had another crack, and got as far as a deal with Netflix. This time it was being developed by John Rogers, a very good writer who I knew from the Cosby series. In this version Jonathan had become Verity Creek, who was gay and super-hip, and the emphasis here was concerned much more with human perception than the literal mechanics of a trick, and how the observer could be cleverly duped, using all sorts of neuro-scientific principles. I read the first draft and said it just made me feel very old, as most things do these days, and just stepped back from it, thinking 'well let's just see where this goes, and whether anyone bites'. A long time passed, and you'll recognise the pattern now - eventually I got the call to say Netflix had decided to pass. No reasons given, or at least none that ever reached me. But of course this is just the norm in Hollywood.”