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EXCLUSIVE: As The Lincoln Lawyer is filming its 5th and last season, David E. Kelley has group retired to accommodate different Michael Connelly crime caller for television, nan 2024 bestseller Nightshade.
The project, titled Welcome To Catalina, is successful improvement astatine HBO Max nether nan streamer’s exemplary for play procedurals intended to return each twelvemonth pinch sizable orders and mean cost. The exemplary was introduced by nan Emmy-winning aesculapian play The Pitt which produces 15 episodes a year.
Written by Kelley, Welcome To Catalina centers connected Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Detective Stilwell who has been “exiled” to a low-key station policing rustic Catalina Island. But while pursuing up nan accustomed drunk-and-disorderlies and petty thefts that travel pinch his caller territory, Stilwell gets a study of a assemblage recovered weighed down astatine nan bottommost of nan harbor.
Kelley executive produces pinch Matt Tinker, President of his David E. Kelley Productions, arsenic good arsenic The Lincoln Lawyer squad of A+E Studios’ Barry Jossen and Tana Jamieson, Ross Fineman of Ross Fineman Entertainment and Connelly. HBO Max is nan lead studio, pinch A+E Studios arsenic co-studio.
In summation to Netflix’s The Lincoln Lawyer, which Kelley created based connected Connelly’s caller The Brass Verdict, Kelley antecedently tackled Michael Connelly’s short communicative Avalon. The adaptation, group astatine ABC, besides was a bull play group connected Catalina Island pinch a female L.A. Sheriff’s Department Detective lead, Nicole “Nic” Searcy, played by Neve Campbell. It yet didn’t move forward.
All of HBO Max’s projects nether nan play procedural exemplary travel from creators and showrunners pinch extended broadcast acquisition who person delivered 20+ episodes a season. Kelley surely falls into that class pinch a slew of web hits earlier successful his profession specified arsenic nan Emmy-winning The Practice and Ally McBeal and much precocious Big Sky on ABC. Kelley’s Connelly bid adaptations arsenic good arsenic Big Sky person each been pinch Fineman and A+E Studios.
David E. Kelley Productions’ existent slate includes Apple TV’s caller drama bid Margo’s Got Money Troubles and play Presumed Innocent, some headed into Season 2, HBO’s Emmy-winning Big Little Lies, which is closing successful connected a 3rd season, and nan precocious announced Myron Bolitar bid for Netflix.
Kelley is repped by CAA and Gendler, Kelly & Cunningham.
