TNT Orders Series Pilot for Scent of the Missing, Adapted from the Book by Susannah Charleson

TNT has ordered a series pilot based on the non-fiction book Scent of the Missing by Susannah Charleson.

The book follows Susannah and her adopted dog Puzzle, the adventures they share together, and the close relationship they forge as they search for the lost — a teen gone missing, an Alzheimer’s patient wandering in the cold, signs of the crew amid the debris of the space shuttle Columbia disaster. From the earliest air-scent lessons to her final mastery of whole-body dialog, Puzzle emerges as a fully collaborative partner in a noble enterprise that unfolds across the forests, plains, and cityscapes of the Southwest. Along the way Susannah and Puzzle learn to read the clues in the field, and in each other, to accomplish together the critical work neither could do alone and to unravel the mystery of the human/canine bond.

We're not too keen on the official tagline — "An adrenaline junkie leader of a canine search-and-rescue team assists various law enforcement agencies with her best friend and partner, a golden retriever" — which we think trivializes to some degree the special bond these two individuals share. We hope the marketing department comes up with something more appropriate if the pilot leads to a series.

(Source: EW Inside TV.)