SyFy Developing Series about Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle solving mysteries

A couple of days ago it was reported that DreamWorks purchased a script from J. Michael Straczynski called Voices From The Dead. The story follows magician Harry Houdini, detective Sherlock Holmes, and writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as they solve a string of murders in 1920's New York with the help of a psychic friend.

The SyFy Channel is also developing a TV series based around this same idea. This series is no way involved with the movie DreamWorks is making. It will be called Among the Spirits, and the project is a drama that also follows Houdini and Doyle solving mysteries in 1920s. The series was named after Houdini's book A Magician Among the Spirits published in 1924, and is based on self-published graphic novel Among the Spirits by writers Steve Valentine and Paul Chart.

President of original programming Mark Stern had this to say about the project, "I guess there is something in the air about that whole time period and that very interesting relationship between Houdini and Doyle." He goes on to explaine that it will be "a turn-of-the-century Fringe... We have Houdini, who was the ultimate illusionist and was all about creating illusions, and Dolyle, who was all about getting to the truth underneath - the dreamer and the pragmatist - set against that 1920s world of America where technology is just starting to grow."

Deadline says, "It will be in the vein of steampunk TV classic The Wild Wild West and Guy Ritchie's 2009 movie Sherlock Homes which put the steampunk  genre back into the zeitgeist. It will center on Houdini and Doyle who, with the help of a female cop, try to solve bizarre murders and strange occurrences that look like hauntings and other supernatural events using steampunk technology."

I love the story concept of these characters, coming together in this setting. This could end up being a a pretty awesome series. What do you all think about it?