Fremantle and British production firm Archery Pictures (Is This Thing On?, Riviera, Fate: The Winx Saga), the company of producer Kris Thykier, will collaborate on a new original crime drama series with the working title Moriarty, written by Chris Cornwell (A Discovery of Witches, Strike Back) and Oliver Lansley (Where’s Wanda?, Flack). Archery and Fremantle will co-produce the show “inspired by” Professor James Moriarty, the fictional character created by Arthur Conan Doyle as the formidable archenemy of Sherlock Holmes. The partners described the project as “a modern reinvention of the crime procedural, based on the most famous villain in all of detective fiction.” A synopsis reads: “James Moriarty is a Professor of Criminal Psychology at Durham University but leads a secret double life as the mastermind behind every crime of sophistication in the North of England.  When a rival criminal begins an assault on his underground empire, Moriarty will have only one choice: to join the police as a consultant, using the law as a weapon to dismantle his foe while keeping his true identity hidden from the police.” He gets paired with Detective Imogen Burrows, “a stoic Yorkshire detective” to form “a fearsome team, but …