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Quick, break out the typewriter.  NBC is set to resurrect '80s crime procedural "Murder, She Wrote." The reboot will feature Oscar winner Octavia Spencer in the starring role of everyone's favorite author/super-sleuth made iconic by Angela Lansbury, the network confirmed the news first reported by Deadline.  In the contemporary version, Spencer is a hospital administrator and amateur detective who self-publishes (naturally!) her first mystery novel.  Though it was a CBS staple for 12 seasons, the peacock network is resuscitating the onetime Universal TV series and giving it a put pilot commitment, which means NBC will have to pay a penalty if the...