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NBC Greenlights A New David E. Kelley Lawyer Drama!!
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“Boston Legal” is wrapping up its final season, but America won’t have to go a year without a series from David E. Kelley.
The creator of “The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Chicago Hope,” “Picket Fences” and “Boston Public” has received a series commitment from NBC for yet another legal hourlong.
It's about a father-daughter lawyering team.
Network TV hasn’t spent a year without a Kelley-created series since 1989, when he debuted “Doogie Howser, M.D.” He began his TV career in 1986, when Kelley became of the most prolific writers behind a brand-new NBC show called “L.A. Law.”
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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But Ally McBeal was garbage.
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That was unexpected.
(But well, at least his shows are entertaining for two seasons minimum.) -
...all 73 of them from the past ten years.
Fucking stupid shows.
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Oct 15, 2008 2:19:50 PM CDT
Unless the father/daughter is Denny & Danni Crane, I ain't watch
by spyguy
Hell, bring back Freddy Prinze, Jr. as Donny Crane for good measure! Otherwise, what's the point of another lawyer show?
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William Shatner really did great in that role.
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Oct 15, 2008 2:22:45 PM CDT
Lame. Lawyers are boring unless on spaceships.
by stereotypical evil archer
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I liked it when it when they took on the absolutely bizarre stuff or whenver Denny Krane shot somebody but began to despise the show when it became a lazy framework for Kelly's preachy bullshit.
My favorite moment: When James Spader paid a random guy in a bar to punch his assailant in the face. An extra $100 if he goes down. -
another show about....gulp....lawyers.
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Or rather the prevalent theme "Don't hate me despite the fact that I am a self absorbed, toxic, sad sack who makes a lot of money." CUT TO: Cheesy Motown Musical Number that only appeals to boomer idiots and the gen-exers who love them.
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I thought the reason Boston Legal returned this tear was because Kelley was behind/had rights to "Life on Mars" and it was a take both or neither situation? Interesting that he's gone back to NBC.
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in American television. He makes AICN stalwarts such as Joss Whedon and Bryan Fuller seem like nobodies. He has more successful hours of television than almost anyone. He's up there with Steven Bochco, Stephen J. Cannell, Aaron Spelling and Dick Wolf.
David Kelley walks into the room and every show runner working in TV is in fucking awe. You better believe it. Maybe he's hasn't been on fire lately, but he could retire right now with his wife MICHELLE PFEIFFER, never write another thing and remain considered as one of the most successful TV writers ever.
'Nuff said! -
Am I right?
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Pass. Unless the daughter is really hot, of course.
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If all his shows had been one season long he might be seen as a genius. But every one of them becomes tiresome.
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Is that Raising the Bar has been canceled and everyone involved in it is to be executed
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this guy is just stealin cash
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Snowpuff, Really? After the last two weeks someone's tax bracket and/or 'awe' inspiring esteem in Hollywood means exactly nothing in today's desperate times. Over the next five years all the big shots will dissolve and (god willing) replaced by cheaper, younger and original talent. I'm for legends as much as the next guy--but if Bochco is some kind of William Faulkner then Kelley is pure Elizabeth Wurtzel.
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then a key cast member will leave sometime in the second season, which will begin to disguise the lack of new ideas by a succession of ever more whacky storylines and guest stars.
then, pretty soon, it will be obvious to everyone how hard it has begun to suck.
everyone, that is, except the Emmy folk who will cluelessly continue to award it 'best drama' for the next three seasons... -
Actually, no....no, it's not.
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um, what?
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When will we see a real life legal show. Like the guys in texas who sleep during trial. Or the ones who take your money and either do nothing or push for a plea bargain.
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There was a show like that... about a lawyer that never went to trial, took really small cases... can't remember the name. Didn't last long.
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The daughter lawyer learns she's been litigating for the very firm she thought she suing, and that her father works for BOTH FIRMS
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I wouldn't mind his lawyer dramas if they made one once of F'ing sense.
Danny Crane was the only point to watching Boston Legal
What got me was the total lack of reality in the show. Oh, stretch reality here or there, but when 3rd parties (police) get involved, I expect to see some acknowledgment (just a line or two) that the characters have danced all over and across "the line".
F'ing horrible shows with so much promise. -
--but by now the guy just repeats himself, and his sense of humor is so stale. He needs to make a western or something totally different than his usual stuff.
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Oct 16, 2008 2:46:26 AM CDT
Or else: how about a law office that works for the porn biz!?
by bob cryptonight
On Showtime! Now that might be different!
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How will I live without it? And soon no more "The Shield" as well!! BAHHHH!!!!
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They both rocked it. It takes both of them.
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Why don't they remake LA Law a la 90210? I would actually watch it.
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Bochco as well. But with their track records, they have built-in audiences so it's easy for the TV exec to say yes to whatever stale crap they turn out nowadays.
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Just like most people do for Boston Legal. This is the only lawyer show for me, when that is gone I am done.
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Now if we can just get a few more cop and doctor shows we'll be set.
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and a Bochco show. and an Abrams show. And a Bruckheimer and a Wolfdick. And where's Norman Lear now that we really need him?That's about all I got - i don't really pay that much attention to television producers.
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was Kelley's Cop Rock.Philly was Bochco's McBeal. Discuss.
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Because we REALLY needed another show about fucking lawyers. Is he creating a new medical drama, too? If it weren't for Pushing Daisies I'd have lost all hope in television by now.
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I want to see a weekly series based on the life of that fascinating Joe The Plumber everyone keeps talking about.
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as his shows progress. I liked The Practice and Ally McBeal in their first years but eventually, I wanted to beat the cast of both shows to death with a blunt object. Personally, my favorite thing of his was Mystery Alaska. And Northern Exposure got really, really annoying those last three years.
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Kelley lawyer show. And the next one after that. Ad fuggin nauseam.
They don't really greenlight shows anymore. They just give their favored producers more money to re-do the same old same-old.
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Northern Exposure was not a Kelley show. I think you're thinking of Picket Fences...
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