CBS Developing Streets Of San Francisco Remake

CBS is developing a contemporary remake of the classic 1970s cop series The Streets of San Francisco that starred Michael Douglas and Karl Malden. Feature writer Sheldon Turner and Numbers producer Robert Port are penning the script, with Simon West on board to direct the potential pilot. Turner and Port, a certified member of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, had worked on reinventing Streets for the past seven months. They spent time in San Francisco, riding along with SFPD cops. The remake will keep key elements from the original series: the title, the names of the two main characters and, of course, the backdrop of the City by the Bay. But the main focus is to bring the spirit of the original show into the new reincarnation, Turner said.