TV Stumbled at Modernizing Nancy Drew, Until The CW Turned It Into a Supernatural Riverdale
'We thought that was the right spin,' said the network's president

In The CW's Nancy Drew, the character is working at a local diner a year after high school—and the death of her mother.
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Nancy Drew has solved hundreds of cases over the years, but for several decades, there has been one mystery she was unable to crack: how to modernize herself in order to connect with TV audiences.