NBC to Re-title MURDER SHE WROTE Reboot Following Lansbury Objections?

As BWW reported yesterday, Angela Lansbury spoke out publicly on Sunday against a proposed reboot of her Emmy Award winning TV series MURDER SHE WROTE.

While the actress, who portrayed Jessica Fletcher on the original CBS series, praised the project's star Octavia Spencer, she shared, "I think it's a mistake to call it Murder, She Wrote, because Murder, She Wrote will always be about a Cabot Cove and this wonderful little group of people who told those lovely stories and enjoyed a piece of that place, and also enjoyed Jessica Fletcher, who is a rare and very individual kind of person. ... So I'm sorry that they have to use the title Murder, She Wrote, even though they have access to it and it's their right."

According to Deadline, NBC is now considering the idea of changing the title of its proposed series. In addition, the site revealed that Spencer will not be playing the role of Jessica Fletcher.

The official description of the NBC project is as follows:

This re-imagining of "Murder She Wrote" -- from "Desperate Housewives" Executive Producer Alexandra Cunningham and starring Academy-Award winner Octavia Spencer ("The Help") -- is a light, contemporary procedural, in the vein of "Bones" or "Fargo," following a hospital administrator and amateur sleuth who self-publishes her first mystery novel. Set in a day where sensational headlines inundate the news, this woman's avid fascination with true crime leads her to become an active participant in the investigations.

The original Murder, She Wrote garnered 12 Emmy nominations for Lansbury. The series premiered in 1984 and aired for 12 seasons, spawning four follow-up TV movies as well as a spinoff series, The Law & Harry McGraw. According to the report, the original theme music will likely remain in this latest incarnation.

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