Salon.com > thomas edison http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 00:26:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Three TV rumors we hope aren’t true http://www.salon.com/2012/09/26/three_tv_rumors_we_hope_arent_true/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/26/three_tv_rumors_we_hope_arent_true/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:52:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13022919 The network that's rolling out "Animal Practice," a show about veterinarians and a capuchin monkey named Crystal, may reinvent Thomas Edison as a crime-fighter. Deadline writes that "Edison" is "a new period crime drama project in the works at NBC":

In the show’s fictional storyline, Edison, already America’s greatest inventor, works as a secret consultant to the under-trained and under-equipped New York Police force. Edison, aka the original Tony Stark, uses his inventor instincts and retro-cool devices to deconstruct crime scenes and pioneer new technology. The period show is expected to have a modern sensibility, energy and tone evocative of the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films. Connolly, Shibian, Johnson and Gran Via’s Melissa Bernstein are executive producing.

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