Endemol Adapting its Dutch Crime Drama Penoza for US Television

Melissa Rosenberg — who adapted all of "The Twilight Saga" novels and served as co-executive producer on Dexter — has partnered with ABC and Endemol Studios to adapt the latter's Dutch crime drama Penoza for US audiences. She will also executive produce.

In the series first season, Carmen van Walraven-de Rue witnesses her husband's brutal murder. Her first instinct is to protect her children. Her husband was doing business with gangsters and he paid the ultimate price.

Carmen already knows the violent world of organized crime, her father was a gangster too. She and her sister had always wished for a safer life without bloodshed and fear. For a while Carmen believed their wish had come true until her husband makes his fatal mistake.

The police promise justice. They will protect her family. But Carmen won’t take chances with her children. This is a battle Carmen must fight herself. She will find her husband’s killer. She will beat the gangsters at their own deadly game.

Penoza is currently filming its second season.

(Source: Deadline.)