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A Season Without
David E. Kelley??
NBC Kiboshes
LEGALLY MAD!!

I am – Hercules!!




The end of an era is upon us!

For the first time since the 1980s, we are headed into a TV season without a show created by primetime broadcast icon David E. Kelley.

The creator of “Boston Legal,” “The Practice,” “Ally McBeal,” “Chicago Hope,” and “Picket Fences” has learned that NBC will not be taking his poorly titled “Legally Mad” pilot to series.

“Mad” was a dramedy hourlong about a lawyer girl who joins her dad’s legal firm. Kristen Chenoweth (“Pushing Daisies”) was going to star.

Kelley began his TV career as a writer-producer on Stephen Bochco’s “L.A. Law” way back in 1986. He and Bochco co-created “Doogie Howser, M.D.” in 1989, and there’s been at least one Kelley-created series airing every season in the two decades since.

Kelley’s last remaining series, ABC's “Boston Legal,” aired its last installment Dec. 8, closing out five seasons.

Read all of Variety’s story on the matter here.


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Sick of shows about doctors and lawyers and cops.
by Rev. Slappy
May 12th, 2009
01:07:03 AM
Good news; Kelley is past it
by bravogolfhotel
May 12th, 2009
01:18:00 AM
If we never have another lawyer show...
by fiester
May 12th, 2009
01:24:05 AM
capitol B to the capitol S
by skaul80
May 12th, 2009
02:12:18 AM
Boo fucking hoo- there's a fucking Depression happening
by Rubiks Doob
May 12th, 2009
02:12:57 AM
Two Words...
by TheMarineBiologist
May 12th, 2009
02:35:10 AM
Legally Dinosaur
by Aloy
May 12th, 2009
03:07:08 AM
jere's a great title for a legality-based series
by ciroslive
May 12th, 2009
03:34:06 AM
This is good for Chuck
by Bramton1
May 12th, 2009
03:49:38 AM
What?
by The McPoyle Clan
May 12th, 2009
04:11:50 AM
Wasn't he behind Life On Mars remake?
by V'Shael
May 12th, 2009
04:46:06 AM
No more James Spader winning Emmy's he doesn't deserve?
by nalapou
May 12th, 2009
05:15:10 AM
Speaking of being dragged into the 21st century ...
by VoldemortWearsPrada
May 12th, 2009
06:27:56 AM
Thanks Jay Leno...
by DeafPoet
May 12th, 2009
06:46:42 AM
One less show about lawyers is a good thing!
by darthsynn
May 12th, 2009
06:54:30 AM
Smell that shoe!
by hebrokeaway
May 12th, 2009
08:33:43 AM
Good! More room for LOST AND FOUND?
by Jardinier
May 12th, 2009
09:01:38 AM
*yawn*
by Mockingbird Girl
May 12th, 2009
09:31:42 AM
David E. Kelley is a hack
by Jor-El23
May 12th, 2009
10:42:08 AM
I like David and I really like Kristen however this is....
by HollywoodHellraiser
May 12th, 2009
11:52:32 AM
KRISTEN, DARLIN', PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD...
by Shermdawg
May 12th, 2009
01:31:49 PM
God I miss Pushing Daisies.
by Shermdawg
May 12th, 2009
01:33:37 PM
Katee Sackhoff's NBC cop drama was also kiboshed...
by PennsyDeux
May 12th, 2009
02:20:53 PM
Pity.
by Jardinier
May 12th, 2009
02:33:32 PM
whatever
by simondark
May 12th, 2009
03:19:26 PM
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD!
by HellKing
May 12th, 2009
04:10:54 PM
Kelley's gonna write a show about a show that's not picked up!
by MrMysteryGuest
May 12th, 2009
05:51:53 PM
Party Down renewed! HELL TO THE FUCKING YEAH!
by PennsyDeux
May 12th, 2009
06:50:19 PM
take a season off, reflect, and come up with a new idea
by johnnysunshine
May 12th, 2009
08:40:54 PM
finally good NBC news
by walrusholder
May 12th, 2009
08:55:50 PM
THANK GOD!!!
by lockesbrokenleg
May 13th, 2009
02:52:29 AM
Jardinier : Pilots being leaked?
by V'Shael
May 13th, 2009
03:04:32 AM
Poor Itty Bitty....
by Zardozap2005
May 13th, 2009
06:26:47 AM
I liked Boston Public
by hatemphd
May 13th, 2009
07:17:45 AM
Thank Fuck
by Cory849
May 13th, 2009
09:52:54 AM
I'm loving all this kiboshing.
by kabong
May 13th, 2009
11:36:38 AM
@V'Shael
by Jardinier
May 14th, 2009
09:54:21 AM

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