It is a deal they are surely excited to get their teeth into.
For silver screen vampire couple Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder have somehow managed to sell a soap-style heist show to the CW network.
Prohibited will centre around a woman who is a reformed thief who is tempted to take up her old profession so she can take part in a daring robbery of the Kentucky Derby.
Money for their blood bank accounts: On-screen vampires Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder have somehow managed to sell a soap-style heist show to the CW network
According to Deadline the CW have decided to develop the hourlong soap-style drama from the couple’s Rare Birds Productions and Warner Bros TV.
The show, penned by Revenge scribe Jesse Lasky, will follow former thief Amelia Jones a she tries to make a fresh start in male-dominated Bourbon Country.
However her two sisters end up showing up to demand she helps them organise their most dangerous heist yet – robbing the Money Room of the Kentucky Derby.
It is certainly long way from a reformed crook trying to turn their life around by pulling pints at the Rovers Return.
The new show is just the latest cause for celebration for the Twilight beauty, who shacked up with the Vampire Diaries hunk soon after filing for divorce from her previous husband, American Idol loser Paul McDonald, in May 2014
Horses for courses: Prohibited will centre around a reformed thief who is tempted to take up her old profession so she can take part in a daring robbery of the Kentucky Derby
Written by a thoroughbred: The show has been penned by Revenge scribe Jesse Lasky
Nikki and Ian, who wed in April 2015. welcomed baby Bodhi Soleil Reed Somerhalder, on July 25.
The lovebirds announced they were expecting via Instagram in May with a picture of Somerhalder kissing Reed’s pregnant belly.
While in a lighthearted chat on Informed Pregnancy in September, Ian revealed that he took his wife’s birth control and flushed it down the toilet during a trip to Barcelona.
The joker said: ‘Unbeknownst to poor Nikki, she didn’t realize that I was gunna go in her purse, and take out her birth control.’
Star turn: Nikki’s biggest role to date was playing vampire Rosalie Hale in The Twilight Saga
A role to sink his teeth into: Her husband played Damon Salvatore in The Vampire Diaries