A year after Black-ish ended its run, Anthony Anderson is returning to ABC as a star of another single-camera comedy, pilot Public Defenders.
Randall Einhorn has come on board to direct the pilot, written by Eddie Quintana. Liz Astrof is set as showrunner. In the comedy, up to their earholes in student loan debt, four inexperienced public defenders work tirelessly to keep their clients out of jail.
Along the way, they have to rely on each other to navigate their first defendants, the absurd court system, and the copy machine that always jams. RELATED: 2023 ABC Pilots & Series Orders Anderson will play the public defenders’ boss Marshall.
He has seen every kind of public defender come through his office, and now that he’s a deputy-in-charge, he sees it as his responsibility to transform his deputies into cutthroat defense attorneys.
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