Before Michael Connelly was that guy with a bookshelf full of bestsellers and multiple TV spin-offs, he was just a kid fresh out of the University of Florida covering crime in Daytona Beach and later Fort Lauderdale, running from police scanners to murder scenes, scribbling down names and details while thinking maybe someday this would turn into something bigger. Well, it's back to basics for the man as he's going back to Florida for his next TV project — an untitled Florida Task Force drama in the works at the new look Paramount Television Studios, all shiny and new following the merger with Skydance, CBS Studios and everything else.