
EXCLUSIVE: The Closer star/executive producer Kyra Sedgwick is back at TNT with another female-centered procedural drama project, this time strictly behind the camera. The cable network has given a pilot order to Proof, a supernatural medical drama executive produced by Sedgwick. Additionally, TNT has greenlighted a legal drama pilot co-written by Marcia Clark, the lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson trial, and Nashville showrunner Dee Johnson.
Written by Rob Bragin (Greek), Proof centers on a skeptical, hard science, female surgeon whoâs struggled with family issues including a tragic death. She is persuaded to investigate cases of reincarnation, out-of-body experiences, hauntings — all of it looking for verifiable proof, to try to answer one of lifeâs greatest questions: Is death truly the end, or is there something ⦠beyond?. Bragin and Sedgwick executive produce with her manager Jill Littman and producer Tom Jacobson (Ladykillers). There are no plans for Sedgwick to star. She had been looking to produce a new TV series and m et with several writers before hitting it off with Bragin, repped by UTA and Rain Management. Sedgwickâs feature producing credits include Loverboy, Cavedweller and Losing Chase.
Clark and Johnson’s Guilt By Association is based on Clark’s novel about Rachel Knight, a gutsy Deputy District Attorney in the Special Trials Unit of the Los Angeles County District Attorneyâs Office.
She works closely with a tough-as-nails female LAPD detective named Bailey Keller and a stylish female prosecutor named Toni LaCollette, both of whom routinely crash at Rachelâs place. The three leads of Guilt By Association mark an evolution for TNT, whose first mega hit was a procedural with one female lead, the Sedgwick starrer The Closer, which was followed by TNT’s current flagship drama, the two-lead Rizzoli & Isles. Fittingly, Nelson McCormick, who has served as director on both The Closer and Rizzoli & Isles and directed the latter’s pilot, is on board to direct the pilot for Guilt By Association and also will executive produce. This marks the TV writing debut of TV personality Clark, who has penned two novels.
Deadline.com
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