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As a screenwriter, David E. Kelley is used to injecting social commentary into his material — not unlike the way the ancient Greeks entered the city of Troy. But when the creator of shows like The Practice, Big Little Lies and Ally McBeal made his foray into documentary filmmaking – with the ocean…

Shortly after his turn in Roadhouse on Prime Video, Jake Gyllenhaal returns to the small screen in the Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent, based on the best-selling book by Scott Turow. The lawyer-novelist's popular legal thriller novel was previously adapted into a 1990 film. The show follows the…

Two trials play out in the new Apple TV+ adaptation of lawyer-novelist Scott Turow's 1988 bestselling legal thriller, Presumed Innocent: the criminal case against a Chicago prosecutor charged with murdering a colleague, and the nightmare at home that the murder trial visits on the family of the…

Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane rarely put in anything less than stellar performances, but the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee are rarely as good as they are in Netflix’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. In a fortnight that has seen the premieres of Hulu's Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough starring Un…

UPDATED, 9 AM: Netflix has unveiled the official trailer for A Man in Full, starring Jeff Daniels as a real estate titan who’s going broke in the six-episode limited series based on Tom Wolfe’s novel. Check out the new trailer above and previous teaser trailer below. PREVIOUS, March 20: We’re getting…

Margo's Got Money Troubles, a hot series package that will star Elle Fanning and Nicole Kidman, has landed at Apple TV+ with a straight-to-series order. Fanning, who is the lead, and Kidman will both exec produce the eight-part series, which is set in the world of OnlyFans with a wrestling twist…

EXCLUSIVE: PBS is leaping into Hope In The Water, a three-part docuseries from David E. Kelley. The series, which was formerly known as Eating Up the Oceans: How Do We Save Our Seas?, will launch on the public broadcaster in summer 2024. Shailene Woodley, Martha Stewart, José…

The real-life Candy Montgomery became a free woman thanks to Don Crowder, the cocksure personal injury attorney who would represent the Texas housewife in the murder trial of Betty Gore in 1980. To portray such an integral character in the HBO Max limited series Love & Death starring Elizabeth Olsen…

The Lincoln Town Car is pulling back into Los Angeles. Netflix has announced that The Lincoln Lawyer, based on the series of bestselling novels by Michael Connelly, will return with a two-part launch this summer. Part 1 premieres on July 6 while Part 2 drops Aug. 3. Created for TV by David E…

There was come old-school writer cred on the picket line outside the Fox lot in Century City today. David E. Kelley, he of the 11 Emmys and 30 nominations, is a veteran of multiple WGA strikes going back to 1988. Introducing himself as “David E. Kelley, old writer,” the Love & Death creator — whose many…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit) and Elizabeth Marvel (The Dropout) have been tapped to star opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Negga in Presumed Innocent, Apple TV+'s upcoming limited series from David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot and Warner Bros. TV, where the company is based…

ABC has passed on David E. Kelley's crime drama series Avalon, starring Neve Campbell, after it was handed a straight-to-series order in February. The Disney-owned network is not moving forward with the project, which is based on a Michael Connelly short story, after it saw the pilot…