In one of the first big sales of the 2019-20 broadcast development season, CBS has given a series production commitment to The Lincoln Lawyer, a legal drama from The Practice creator David E. Kelle…
Lawyer centers on Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist, who runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles.The high-profile project, which marks Kelley’s return to broadcast, was taken out by A+E Studios just before the upfronts, with CBS quickly snapping it.stems from a previous spec script Kelley had written which A+E Studios acquired a year or so ago, setting it up at Epix.
While that project did not move forward, Kelley indicated to A+E Studios brass that he was looking to return to broadcast with an eye toward the legal drama genre, andA+E Studios’ team tracked down the books and jumped in immediately as their rights deal expired. Lionsgate TV had previously had the rights and developed aTV series, which had been set up at ABC, after its movie studio sibling produced the 2011 movie starring Matthew McConaughey as Michael “Mickey” Haller.
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