

Gallery Season 1 Main article: Season 1/Gallery On February 3, 2021, Nancy Drew was renewed for a third season. Kennedy McMann confirmed that production never had to shut down because of COVID-19. Filming for the season officially wrapped on April 29, 2021. However, production shut down the next day due to delays in processing COVID-19 tests in British Columbia. On September 29, 2020, filming for Season 2 officially began.

Production had paused during filming of episode 20. In the events following the global pandemic, episode 18 served as the season finale, four episodes earlier than intended. However, due to ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, production shut down three weeks before.

Principal photography for season 1 began on July 22, 2019, and was to expected to end on December 9, 2019, in Vancouver, British Columbia before more episodes were ordered pushing it back to April 7, 2020. The first trailer was released the following week on May 16, 2019. On May 7, 2019, The CW announced that the project was picked up for series. The pilot was filmed in Vancouver, Canada from March 25 to April 9 under the working title The Haunting of Nancy Drew. In April, Pamela Sue Martin, who portrayed Nancy Drew in the 1970s, was cast to guest star as Harriet Grosset. was cast as Nancy's father Carson Drew, but in May, Scott Wolf was cast to replace him in the role. In March, Maddison Jaizani was cast as Bess, Alex Saxon was cast as Ace, and Alvina August was cast as Detective Karen Hunt. In February, Kennedy McMann was cast as the lead Nancy Drew, Leah Lewis was cast as George, and Tunji Kasim was cast as Ned “Nick” Nickerson. On January 23, 2019, a pilot was ordered. In September 2018, The CW announced that Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage were developing a new Nancy Drew television series.

But when a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group of other teens present at the scene: Nancy’s nemesis from high school, George Fan ( Leah Lewis) a rich girl with a mysterious past, Bess Marvin ( Maddison Jaizani) Nancy’s secret boyfriend, Ned “Nick” Nickerson ( Tunji Kasim), and amiable burnout Ace ( Alex Saxon). Devastated by her mother’s passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while crossing off the days until she can re-apply to college. Official season 1 synopsis: Nancy Drew ( Kennedy McMann) is a brilliant teenaged detective whose sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine – until her mother’s untimely death derails Nancy’s college plans.
