NBC buys 'Afterthought' pitch

Exclusive: NBC has bought our prime-concept pitch "Afterthought" from hot feature scribes Evan Daugherty ("Snow Whitened and also the Huntsman") and Melissa Rosenberg ("The Twilight Saga"), who is constantly on the branch into TV creating following her success with Showtime's "Dexter."Referred to like a closed-ended procedural within the vein of "CSI," by means of "Beginning" and "The Cell," story follows an unconventional team inside the FBI that utilizes the six-hour window between clinical dying and cellular dying to resolve killings simply by entering the reminiscences from the lately deceased.Rosenberg, who'll make her non-writing creating debut, will professional produce the project through her Tall Women Prods. banner, while Daugherty will co-professional produce and write the pilot. Daugherty produced the concept and introduced it to Rosenberg, because the two share exactly the same features agent at UTA, Tobin Babst.The Peacock-affiliated Universal Television will produce."I am delighted to become dealing with Bob Greenblatt again, getting had this type of great creative relationship on "Dexter," stated Rosenberg. "I had been keen on Evan's from the beginning and that he has an array of fresh, original ideas. 'Afterthought' is high concept -- combined with a powerful, complex female protagonist -- and it is precisely Tall Women Prods.' raison d'etre."Additionally to her focus on "Dexter," Rosenberg has credits on several effective TV series, including "The O.C." and "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Lady." She's written all five films in Summit Entertainment's "The Twilight Saga," which stars Billy Burke and who toplines Daugherty's feature debut, "Snow Whitened and also the Huntsman."Rosenberg can also be writing "Highlander" for Summit and "Earthseed" for Vital. Latter may be the first set of features up at Tall Women Prods.Daugherty broke in to the business together with his thriller script "Shrapnel," which John McTiernan is mounted on direct. Scribe can also be adapting Veronica Roth's youthful adult novel "Divergent" for Summit and Red-colored Wagon Entertainment.Daugherty and Rosenberg correspondingly handled by FilmEnging and three Arts Entertainment, correspondingly. Contact Shaun Sneider at shaun.sneider@variety.com