NBC picks up pirate action-adventure series 'Crossbones'

MUMBAI: US broadcaster NBC has ordered an action adventure show ?Crossbones?. Production for the 10 episodes will begin later this year.

The announcement was made by NBC Entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt.

It?s 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, the first functioning democracy in the Americas, where the diabolical pirate Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard, reigns over a rogue nation of thieves, outlaws and miscreant sailors.

Part shantytown, part marauder?s paradise, this is a place like no other on earth - and a mounting threat to international commerce.

To gain control of this fearsome society, Tom Lowe, a highly skilled undercover assassin, is sent to the pirates? haven to take down the brilliant and charismatic Blackbeard. But the closer Lowe gets, the more he finds that his quest is not so simple.

Lowe can?t help but admire the political ideals of Blackbeard, whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds - and no law. But Lowe is not the only danger to Blackbeard?s rule. He is a man with many villainous rivals and one great weakness - a passionately driven woman whom he cannot deny.