Welcome To Catalina

Welcome To Catalina is in development at HBO Max, adapting Michael Connelly's 2024 bestselling novel Nightshade. David E. Kelley is writing and executive producing the police procedural, which follows Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective Stilwell, who has been exiled to a low-key posting policing rustic Catalina Island. While handling routine drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts, Stilwell discovers a body weighed down at the bottom of the harbor, pulling him into a larger investigation. The project is being developed under HBO Max's drama procedural model—the same framework used by the Emmy-winning medical drama The Pitt—which is designed for shows that return annually with fifteen-episode seasons and moderate budgets. Kelley executive produces alongside Matt Tinker of David E. Kelley Productions, with The Lincoln Lawyer team Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson of A+E Studios, Ross Fineman of Ross Fineman Entertainment, and Connelly himself also producing. HBO Max is the lead studio, with A+E Studios serving as co-studio.