Things seem to be moving forward on the proposed Poe TV show we mentioned last week, as a director for the pilot episode has been announced. Alex Graves, responsible for directing the Fringe pilot as well as the pilot for Steven Speilberg's upcoming Terra Nova.
The pilot for Poe is being created for ABC and is described as "a new crime procedural TV series that will follow Edgar Allan Poe, the world's very first detective, as he uses unconventional methods to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston."