ABC Family is kicking off summer with a new addition to the slate — the cabler’s first-ever procedural drama, “Stitchers.”
The crime series, which is lead-in by the Season 6 premiere of megahit “Pretty Little Liars,” is a case-by-case show each week, but still prides itself off of what the young-skewing network has already found much success in with its rabid social media-crazed fans: relationships ready to be shipped.
“It’s a character and relationship-based show that’s got a flavor of procedural,” exec producer Jeffrey Alan Schechter tells Variety of the drama that follows a young woman who’s recruited into a secret government agency to be “stitched” into the minds of dead bodies, using memories of the recently deceased to investigate murders.
Though the series is catered toward the ABC Family viewer, Schechter says the running themes, which are darker than the net’s norm, could certainly expand the audience, bringing in an older demo.
“The intent from day one was always to get a show that the people who really love ‘The Fosters’ and ‘Switched at Birth’ and ‘Pretty Little Liars’ will also love, but there’s enough in there and enough intrigue for the next age group in their 20’s and 30’s,” Schechter explains. With a laugh, he explains, “I’m pretty sure the body count in our pilot episode is greater than the body count in all the seasons of “The Fosters.’”
