EXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing a legal drama written and executive produced by Bill Chais (Franklin & Bash), a former public defender, and Pat Cunnane (Designated Survivor), who was President Barack Obama’s Senior Writer and Deputy Director of Messaging at the White House.
The drama is executive produced by the Black Sails duo of Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz and Warren Littlefield via The Littlefield Company.
20th Television, where The Littlefield Company is based, is the studio.In the Untitled North Carolina Governor project, a brash Bronx public defender comes to North Carolina to reform a dysfunctional, seriously underfunded criminal justice system, putting him on a collision course with the tough-on-crime governor, when, desperate
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