Telemystery: TNT Orders Three Pilots, including King and Maxwell, based on Characters Created by David Baldacci

Last summer CBS was interested in developing a series project based on characters created by David Baldacci. Today we're learning that TNT has picked up the project (from CBS Television Studios), ordering a pilot for King and Maxwell, a potential series featuring private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, who use their experience as former secret service agents to give them an edge in solving their cases. Baldacci will serve as a consultant for the pilot.

TNT also ordered pilots for two other dramas today, that may be of interest.

Legends — based on the book Legends by Robert Littell — centers on a deep-cover operative named Martin Odum, who has an uncanny ability to transform himself into a different person for each job. But his own identity comes into question when a mysterious stranger suggests that Martin isn’t who he thinks he is.

Trooper — another project originally set up at CBS — is a procedural about a recently divorced female state trooper who is as unconventional at work as she is at home raising her three kids. Her partner on the job is a widowed father who has a much more by-the-book approach to policing.