Three new Women's Murder Clubs to come
The fate of ABC's Women's Murder Club has been determined...at least for the rest of this season. After a shake-up in the production team early this month which resulted in co-creators/producers Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, as well and exec-producer R. Scott Gemmill, all being dispatched, Robert Nathan (Law and Order) has been named showrunner. Nathan will produce three more original episodes this season to be aired as early as April. This is good news for fans of the femme detective series based on crime novelist James Pattersons' bestsellers. The hour drama premiered last October to generally poor reviews, but did well enough in the Nielsens to encourage ABC that they might have a hit on their hands. As the week's passed, the ratings dipped. The ten episodes that aired averaged a 6.1 rating/11 share; 38th place overall. Not gangbusters, but pretty good.
In a year of shows about female friend -- Cashmere Mafia, Lipstick Jungle -- Women's Murder Club was a hybrid of sorts. It mixed the girlfriend bonding idea with the procedural drama. The WMC foursome include a homicide detective (Angie Harmon), a medical examiner (Paula Newsome), a D.A. (Laura Harris) and a newspaper reporter (Aubrey Dollar), all best friends who get together to crack the toughest homicides in San Francisco. Implausible, perhaps, but the show has a loyal following and they'll be happy to hear about the three fresh episodes to come. Still to be determined is whether or not ABC has decided to give the Club a pick up for next season.

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