ABC Renews Drama ‘Big Sky’

David E. Kelley drama Big Sky on ABC
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ABC has renewed David E. Kelley drama Big Sky for season two. Based on The Highway series of books by C.J. Box, the show has Katheryn Winnick and Kylie Bunbury in the cast. 

Big Sky sees private detectives search for sisters who were kidnapped on a remote highway in Montana. 

The series is executive produced by David E. Kelley, Elwood Reid and Ross Fineman, and is produced by 20th Television in association with A+E Studios. 

Reid, who came on board for the back half of the first season, will showrun season two. Reid was executive producer on FX’s The Bridge, and is exec producer on Nat Geo’s Barkskins and Showtime’s The Chi. 

Big Sky grows to a 3.15 rating among viewers 18-49 after 35 days of delayed viewing across linear and digital platforms, according to ABC, averaging over 12 million total viewers. 

The first season has 16 episodes. It debuted November 17.

Kelley is behind Love and Death on HBO Max and The Undoing and Big Little Lies on HBO. 

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Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.