A U.S. version of Japanese crime drama “Connected: The Homebound Detective”, from Japanese broadcaster Nippon TV and U.K.-based Envision Entertainment, could be on the way in an option agreement with ITV Studios’ Tomorrow Studios.

The option on the format was announced as this year’s ATF opened in Singapore this morning.

Envision Entertainment and Nippon TV will co-produce the series with Tomorrow Studios.

No timetable for the show to be confirmed/greenlit has been released.

The series is about Ataru Aida, an agoraphobic young man recruited to use his genius-level online research skills to help solve crimes and realises that virtual investigations have real-life consequences.

The scripted series, which broadcast in Japan in April 2022, was created by Itaru Mizuno for Nippon TV and Michael Nakan for Envision Entertainment.