‘L.A. Law’ Sequel Series Not Moving Forward at ABC
Looks like the lawyers of McKenzie Brackman won’t be back on our screens after all — ABC has decided to pass on reviving LA Law after ordering a pilot for the Blair Underwood-starring series back in the fall.
The sequel would have returned to the aforementioned venerable law firm of the original series, which ran from 1986 to 1994 on NBC. In the present, the practice had reinvented as a litigation firm specializing in only the most high profile, boundary-pushing, and incendiary cases.
Underwood was set to reprise the character of Jonathan Rollins, who is no longer the idealistic attorney viewers remember. He’d since become more conservative and clashing with millennial coworkers when it comes to deciding the best path forward for the firm to effect political and legal change.
Joining Underwood from the original cast was Corbin Bernsen as former lothario Arnie Becker, and the two were set to star alongside new cast members Toks Olagundoye (Castle), John Harlan Kim (Nancy Drew) and Arrow alums Juliana Harkavy and Kacey Rohl.
The pilot was written by Arrow’s Marc Guggenheim and Legends of Tomorrow‘s Ubah Mohamed. The two executive-produced the episode with the late Steven Bochco’s wife Dayna and son Jesse. Anthony Hemingway (Shameless) directed.
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They re-boot "The Wonder Years", which didn't need to be re-booted yet they pass on "LA Law"?
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Tell me about it
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And from what I heard the rookie spinoff pilot was boring as hell!
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Why does la law need to be rebooted more than wonder years?
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LA Law was a revival. The Wonder Years was a reboot with a black cast.
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So disappointed…was looking forward to the new LA law!
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Me too
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I have little interest in Every new show I start, on the streaming services ( cause who watches anything on broadcast tv anymore) and I kept telling myself, that's ok LA Law will be on soon! And now I hear it's NOT. Wow bad move ABC.
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ABC please reconsider. I think it will be a success.
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Seriously? The only show I was looking forward to. I am so pissed!
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Same here! Uggggggggggggggh!
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It's incredibly sad that THE WONDER YEARS was such a stand-out hit for ABC from 1988-1993, and the original series even managed to stay a classic while whispers of Jason Hervey [Wayne] & Fred Savage [Kevin] were supposedly sniffing around the female staffers in the WONDER YEARS wardrobe dept. Cut to the 2021-2022 version of the WONDER YEARS [starring Dule Hill as Dean's dad] and we STILL have Fred Savage, now a 46-yr-old adult man and a [rebooted] WONDER YEARS director/producer, lurking around the current WONDER YEARS female cast, getting handsy and whatnot, but the difference between the WONDER YEARS 1993 allegations and the 2021-2022 allegations is that in 1993, nothing was done about those allegations and today, during the 2021-2022 WONDER YEARS TV season, it is very possible that Fred Savage and any other cast or crew member associated with him, could be facing jail time if the cast or crew members are brave enough to come forward and substantiate those supposed allegations. Time will tell, I suppose...
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