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Yep, you heard it correctly. “Criminal Minds” exec-producer/showrunner Ed Bernero is writing a new installment of the “Hawaii Five-O” franchise and is calling it “Hawaii Five-O’ 2.0”



Like the original series, it is a procedural chronicling the workings of the fictional Hawaiian state police department. In the original, the unit was headed by Steve McGarrett, played by Jack Lord. In the new series, McGarrett’s son Chris will be the top cop.While the characters, storytelling and pacing will be updated, “we will try to keep as
much of the original show as possible,” Bernero said. “I’m not trying to
reinvent it.”

“Five-O,” which would be filmed in Hawaii, is the second classic cop series that CBS is looking to bring back. The network also is
developing an updated “Streets of San Francisco,” penned by Sheldon Turner. The two would give CBS more procedurals in distinct locales to complement its “CSI” series set in Las Vegas, Miami and New York.Like several other classic cop series such as “Starsky & Hutch” and “Miami Vice,” which have made the leap to the big screen, there has been an attempt to make a “Five-0” feature, but the project, set at Warner Bros., has been dormant for a while.

Watch out CSI, Law & Order, 24 and all you other crime drama’s, one the O.G.’s is coming back on the scene.

Ed also has a couple of other projects in the works. Read the article in it’s entirety here.