NBC developing US take on Finland's 66th North Precinct

NBC is developing an American version of the Finnish crime drama 66th North Precinct.

Deadline reported the project as an exclusive on 7 October 2026. The adaptation does not yet have a title.

The new show comes from writer Arika Lisanne Mittman, Elevate Entertainment and Universal Television. Mittman will write the adaptation and serve as an executive producer, the senior role that guides both storytelling and production decisions. Alex Cole and Joe Wiggins will executive produce for Elevate Entertainment alongside her.

The planned NBC series is described as a darkly comedic procedural, meaning a crime series built around a new case each week with a strong thread of humour. It centres on a former professional boxer who returns with her family to her hometown in southern Colorado to work as a sheriff's deputy. No cast has been announced. No title yet.

An adaptation keeps the starting idea and rebuilds the setting, characters and language for a new audience. Here the move is a long one. The original 66th North Precinct is set in Lapland, in the far north of Finland, and drew inspiration from real-life bizarre crimes reported in the region.

That Finnish series premiered in 2023 and stars Saara Kotkaniemi as lead character Maria Pujos. Two seasons had aired at the time of the October 2026 report. The NBC project would transplant that northern police story to a small American town.

Mittman is a familiar name at NBC. She created The Irrational and served as its showrunner, the writer in charge of day-to-day creative control. That drama starred Jesse L. Martin and ran for two seasons.

She works under an overall deal with Universal Television, meaning the studio backs her to develop new projects with it first. Deadline reported that agreement in 2021, noting that she continued as an executive producer on the NBC drama La Brea under the deal.

For viewers, this means waiting. Development is the earliest stage of commissioning. NBC has not ordered a pilot, meaning a test episode, or a full series, so there is no airdate and no filming crew yet.

What makes this stand out is the distance travelled. A Lapland case file has become a Colorado homecoming story. If it moves forward, a writers' room will decide what survives the trip.