OT: Transcience by Ian Somerhalder in Development at The CW

Even as The Vampire Diaries is coming to an end, co-lead Ian Somerhalder will stay in business with the CW as a producer. The network has put in development Transcience, an hourlong drama, from Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed’s recently launched Rare Birds Productions. Warner Bros. TV, where Rare Birds has a pod deal, is the studio.

Written by Thomas Brandon, in Transience, when consciousness transfers become legal in the near future, an ambitious young musician finally gets the kind of body and life that he wants. But the procedure has side effects, sending him down a dark rabbit hole where identity, memory and the past start to violently collide. Somerhalder and Reed executive produce, Brandon will serve as supervising producer.