NBC has greenlit 13 episodes of drama Aquarius, which will star David Duchovny as a detective on the trail of Charles Manson. The series bypassed the typical development process and was ordered straight to series, an increasingly common practice for NBC series starring popular actors. John McNamara wrote the script, in which Duchovny will play a Los Angeles police sergeant in the 1960s who begins tracking a criminal who has a knack for enthralling young women.
