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EXCLUSIVE: After a drawstring of successful character-driven ray crime procedurals specified arsenic The Rookie, High Potential, Will Trent and R.J Decker, ABC is looking to widen nan look to nan ineligible genre. The web is processing Holding Court, written/executive produced by Alfredo Barrios Jr. (Hotel Cocaine) and executive produced by Ross Fineman of Fineman Entertainment (The Lincoln Lawyer).
Holding Court is simply a character-driven one-hour dramedy pursuing a brilliant, stubborn yet book-smart paralegal who teams up pinch a charismatic, street-smart lawyer who hardly passed nan barroom to thief tally her father’s rule patient aft his death.
The setup is somewhat reminiscent of classical dramedy procedural, Moonlighting: a female owning a institution — a ineligible patient aliases a PI agency — and partnering pinch a charismatic feline to tally it.
The task taps into Barrios Jr.’s inheritance of a Harvard Law-educated lawyer who spent 5 years arsenic a firm litigator earlier segueing to writing. He has worked connected a slew of ineligible dramas, including First Monday, Lyon’s Den, Law & Order, Just Legal, Close to Home, and Justice.
This marks Fineman’s return to ABC wherever he executive produced David E. Kelley’s play bid Big Sky. He besides executive produces Kelley’s Netflix bid The Lincoln Lawyer, based connected Michael Connelly’s books, arsenic good arsenic Kelley’s latest Connelly adaptation, Welcome To Catalina, which is successful nan useful astatine HBO Max.
Barrios Jr. was connected Burn Notice for its full seven-season tally connected USA, rising to executive producer. He served arsenic showrunner and executive shaper connected nan History play Six, arsenic executive shaper connected Epix’s Hotel Cocaine and arsenic a co-executive shaper connected Prime Video’s Shelter and CBS’ Magnum PI. Barrios Jr. made his characteristic debut pinch nan 2024 Bull Run starring Tom Blyth. He is repped by CAA, The Shuman Co. and Felker McGinnis & Ryan.
