Your favourite cops from the Spawn comics are getting their own gory TV series courtesy of Kevin Smith.

The Clerks director and Comic Book Men host is working with BBC America on a series based on Sam and Twitch, the NYPD homicide detectives who solve the most gruesome crimes in the Spawn universe.

BBC America's president Sarah Barnett announced the project in a chat with Deadline: "[Kevin] is attached to write, direct and EP a series based on the Sam And Twitch comic book series for us.

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"They were originally introduced in Spawn, and it's Todd McFarlane's comic book series about these big-city homicide detectives who face a series of super grizzly crimes that are connected to the occult.

"It's kind of frightening and sort of gallows humour. It's, again, procedural, but in a very modern, contemporary way. So each episode is closed ended, although there are certain character-serialised aspects to the storytelling."

The Sam and Twitch project is only in the development stage right now, but Barnett revealed that Kevin Smith is "beyond himself excited" to bring the Spawn franchise back to TV.

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We've previously had animated versions of both Sam and Twitch in the cult classic Spawn series, with James Keane and Whose Line Is It Anyway's Michael McShane voicing the police officers.

Sam and Twitch first appeared in Spawn's first issue back in 1992, and have since been spun off into their own crime drama title.

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Kevin Smith owns the famed Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash comic shop in New Jersey and his love of the medium has been littered throughout most of his films. He's recently directed episodes of The CW's The Flash and Supergirl.

As this TV project movies forward, Spawn creator Todd McFarlane continues to work on an adult-rated reboot of the franchise for the big screen .

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