(Photo By Flickr User mark.hogan)

According to blackamericaweb.com, NBC has plans to bring back one of the most watched shows in television history, "Murder, She Wrote!" This breaking enetrtainment news story was issued out on last week.

They’re going to do it with Oscar winner Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) succeeding Angela Lansbury in the lead role as mystery writer and amateur detective.

The new hour-long project, which has received a put pilot commitment, is a re-imagining of the long-running CBS series. Described as a light, contemporary procedural in the vein of Bones or Fargo, it follows a hospital administrator and amateur sleuth (Spencer) who self-publishes her first mystery novel.

Set in a day where sensational headlines inundate the news, this woman’s avid fascination with true crime leads her to become an active participant in the investigations.

This would mark the first series regular role for Spencer, who won an Oscar for "The Help." She previously worked with NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt and Dave Janollari on the 2001 Sci Fi Channel (SyFy) series "The Chronicle," which the two executive produced and she recurred on.