Hulu is developing Suspect, a drama series based on Scott Turow’s 2022 novel, bringing the legal-thriller writer’s latest work into television with Marissa Jo Cerar, Bruce Miller and Matt Shakman attached.
The project centers on Pinky, an oddball private investigator who tries to find evidence that could clear a female police chief accused of extorting sex from male officers in exchange for promotions. Turow posted on Facebook last fall that he was excited to see what Shakman and his team would do with the material, a sign that the adaptation had already started moving before Hulu stepped in publicly with development plans.
That timing matters because viewers have seen Hulu lean hard into prestige drama built around dark institutional worlds, and Cerar and Miller arrive with direct ties to that lane. Cerar wrote Suspect and will executive produce alongside Miller, Shakman, Turow and MGM, while 20th Television is the studio behind the project. Cerar was a writer and supervising producer on the third season of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, and Miller is the creator, executive producer and showrunner of Hulu, 20th TV and MGM’s The Testaments, which was recently renewed for a second season after amassing 45 million hours streamed globally to date.
Shakman, who initially optioned the novel, is attached as a producer-director after recently wrapping the pilot and finale of Wild Things for Apple TV and after his producing-directing turn on WandaVision for Marvel and Disney+. That leaves Suspect in an active but unfinished stage: Hulu has development underway, yet there is no series order and no release date, so the next decision will determine whether Pinky’s case becomes the next chapter in Hulu’s pipeline or remains another adaptation still waiting for a green light.
