Police Drama Pilot ‘East New York’ Picked Up By CBS
CBS continues to rack up its pilot orders as police procedural East New York becomes the latest drama on the eye network’s 2021-22 development slate.
The series comes from William Finkelstein (The Good Fight) and Mike Flynn (Big Sky) and, according to Variety, follows Regina Haywood, the newly promoted police captain in an impoverished, working-class area of eastern Brooklyn. Set amid social upheaval and the early signs of gentrification, Haywood faces reluctance to her creative methods as she leads a diverse group of officers and detectives.
Finkelstein is an Emmy-winning writer and producer who has experience working on many police and legal dramas. His credits include Law & Order, Murder One, L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, and, more recently, The Good Fight. He also co-created the CBS ’90s police ensemble drama Brooklyn South with frequent collaborators David Milch, Steven Bochco and Bill Clark.
Flynn is best known as a co-executive producer on the ABC crime thriller Big Sky. He’s also served as a producer on Starz’s Power Book III: Raising Kanan and the Oprah Winfrey Network’s (OWN) Queen Sugar. His writing credits include Showtime drama The Chi, OWN’s soap-opera mystery Greenleaf, and USA Network’s medical drama Rush.
Finkelstein and Flynn will executive produce East New York alongside Skyemac Productions’ Mike Robin, who is an exec producer on series including All Rise and Major Crimes. Wonder Street’s Mark Holder and Christine Holder (Self Made: Inspired By The Life of Madam C.J Walker) are also on board as exec producers. Warner Bros. is producing.
This marks CBS’ latest official drama pilot pick-up of the 2021-22 development season. It was previously announced that the network had ordered Cal Fire, starring SEAL Team’s Max Thieriot, and a mother-and-son legal drama from Scott Prendergast and Dr. Phil McGraw. On Tuesday, it was revealed CBS had also ordered a gender-swapped reboot of ’90s fantasy drama Early Edition.
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