Will The CW's 'iZombie' keep its bite?

Rob Thomas made his name with the cult teen-noir series Veronica Mars (well worth seeking out on DVD) and recently returned to the concept to film a Kickstarter-funded movie about the character, which is now in post-production. But according to industry site Deadline, he'll be bringing a different kind of project back to life (quite literally) with iZombie.

Based on the Vertigo/DC comic of the same name, created by writer Chris Roberson and artist Michael Allred, the series is based around the characer of a medical student who becomes a zombie. Hiding her condition, she takes a job in the local mortuary so that she can eat brains once a month without a negative effect on the living population. However a side-effect of the new diet is that she absorbs the memories of the deceased and thus is able to help solve some of the crimes that led to their demise.  Think Tru Calling meets Dead Like Me meets The (Jay?)Walking Dead.  In the comic, the main character of Gwendolyn Price was actually written as a gravedigger with the same monthly curse and had companions such as a ghost and a wereterrier. It's not known if the show will embrace those charcaters or the more abstract parts of the comic.

Though zombies are, without doubt, getting a new lease of life on the cinema and television screen, we can't help thinking that this very high-concept show has found something of a strange home with The CW channel. The CW may have form with the likes of Smallville and Arrow but it is also (in)famous for its many series featuring beautiful people with beautiful problems... and it seems highly unlikely that a  cutting edge 'mature readers' comic with a young girl eating brains on a weekly basis would meet their criteria for basic table-manners and the Rodeo Drive wardrobe remit. Will it mean that the central aspect of the story will be toned down and made more... well, palatable?

However, we like the receipe, so we'll we'll see what's served up. (Groan)