ITV is "in advanced development on a sweeping adaptation of Lindsey Davis's 'Falco' Roman private detective novels' after the project was originally in with the BBC," Deadline reported. Mammoth Screen (Victoria) will make the series and is in negotiations with ITV over the number episodes, casting and the production budget.
Mammoth optioned the Falco books in 2013 and has worked with Guy Andrews (Lost in Austen) to adapt them for television, with Davis consulting on the series. The author has published 20 Falco novels, starting with The Silver Pigs in 1989. The books feature Marcus Didius Falco, a fictional Roman private detective who investigates crimes and acts as an often reluctant imperial agent.