



This is the second big commitment for 6 th & Idaho this season. Before segueing to development, Heldens spent three seasons on the critically praised drama Friday Night Lights. She previously created NBC’s Mercy and Deception and co-created the network’s summer series Camp. Heldens serves an executive producer on Seth MacFarlane’s upcoming space dramedy series for Fox. The Passage trilogy by Cronin includes the best-selling eponymous first book, published in 2010 by Random House’s Ballantine Books, which was followed by The Twelve in 2012 and The City of Mirrors earlier this year. The project migrated to sister studio 20th TV, which, working with Scott Free, attached Heldens because she loved the books and she hit it off with the producers. Originally developed as a feature, the producers eventually determined that the property would be better served as a TV series. The Passage‘s road to the screen started in 2007 when, in a fierce bidding situation among film studios and top producers, Fox 2000 landed the first book - then half-written - for $1.75 million for Scott Free to produce. Clayton Krueger will oversee for Scott Free and Rafi Crohn for 6 th & Idaho. 20th TV, where Heldens and Reeves’ 6th & Idaho are under overall deals, is the studio. Heldens executive produces alongside Reeves and Adam Kassan via 6 th & Idaho and Ridley Scott and David W. The series spans over a century and focuses on a young girl named Amy who must save the human race. Written by Heldens, with Reeves set to direct, The Passage begins as a character-driven government conspiracy thriller and morphs into a post-apocalyptic saga with vampires.
