Wendy Davis made national headlines in 2013 for filibustering anti-abortion legislation in the Texas Senate. Now the former Democratic state senator is poised for more national attention as the inspiration for a dramedy series in development at NBC.
Written by Jennifer Cecil, the untitled project centers on a female Democratic senator who, after losing the Texas governor’s race, gets her world turned upside down. In the vein of The Good Wife, while she pieces her pride back together, she goes to work in the law firm of her best friend — a black male Republican — and discovers that with no political future to protect, she can unshackle her inner badass.
Cecil and Davis executive produce alongside Sue Naegle via her Naegle Ink banner and Karen Sherwood. Universal TV is the studio.
A Harvard-educated lawyer, Davis represented District 10 in the Texas Senate from 2009-15. She made national news in June 2013 when she staged an 11-h
our filibuster to block a Senate bill imposing major new restrictions on abortions. The filibuster, which drew support from President Obama, was successful, but the bill ultimately passed. The move made Davis a political star, leading to a run for governor last year, which she lost in the general election. Since then, Davis had been working on a new women’s equality initiative targeting millennials.
Former Private Practice executive producer/co-head writer Cecil is an an executive producer on NBC’s upcoming medical drama Heartbreaker. Her résumé also includes stints as a co-executive producer on AMC’s Hell On Wheels and CBS’ Hostages.
Davis and Cecil are repped by UTA.
OMG how much more leftist political propaganda garbage can you get?!?!
I can picture it now: vilifying pro-life or pro-Second-Amendment advocates…really making the main character a champion for the people LOL- what a joke!
What…NBC trying to relive it’s ‘West Wing’ glory days? May as well count it as an in-kind contribution to the DNC LOL…
Stop it Dad. You’re embarrassing me.
You need to listen to your father. Sure wish I had.
Son, you’re embarrassing the family with your right wing ways.
Yawn… Unshackle her inner badass… LOL.
Another awful NBC project.
Calling it The Good Husband might be fun.
Great writer and all around nice person. Can’t wait to see it.
There goes my idea for a liberal and conservative lawyer paired together!
When Republicans or Conservatives actually do something outside of their own miserable self-interests, take on a cause other than pro-life, successfully and genuinely give a shit about the people, someone will make a show about them. Until then Republican trolls, STFU and go away. No one here cares about how outraged you are.
It was Republicans who outlawed slavery while your side of the aisle fought tooth and nail to keep blacks in chains.
You had to go back 125 years for that? Now, douchbag! Live in the present.
It is republicans who are fighting to try and let inner city kids attend quality schools, while democrats fight to kill their ability to leave failing and corrupt districts.
That’s in the present.
You are correct, sir!
Yes, Republicans are fighting for charter schools because it’s part of their agenda to privatize Education. Schools that take in kids from other districts are rewarde with bigger budgets taken out of the failing school budgets.
No, Republicans are fighting to divert money away from already cash-strapped schools to benefit private schools that have performed no better overall than public schools. The vast majority of black children will still have to attend the public schools, which have now been further crippled by Republicans.
Wait are you citing something that happened 150 years ago to prove a point about the present day character of the GOP? If you have to reach that far back the GOP must really suck.
Right, and in what ways does that Republican party, which superseded states rights to envelope the Confederacy under the federal government, have to do with the Confederate flag-waving ‘states-rights (aka no gay marriage, only people of certain religions can hold political office) Republicans of today?
Yeah, but the Republicans of 1865 are present day Democrats. Party views change.
Wrong. As late as 1964 it was Republican votes that got the Civil Rights Act passed, not the Democrats. Just like the CRA of 1957 and before a majority of Democrats opposed it. Even today the Democrats oppose school choice by leaving poor kids in failed public schools while Republicans want school choice for parents.
Let’s be clear, it was the LIBERAL party of the day that outlawed slavery while the CONSERVATIVE party of the day “fought tooth and nail to keep blacks in chains.” Just as today it is the conservative party, the Republican Party, that is desperately trying to limit Black people’s ability to vote, say by closing all the DMV’s in predominantly black counties.
Bull.
Guys, KU has a really awesome football team because they won the Orange Bowl that one time ten years ago. Times haven’t changed! #Republicanlogic
I don’t know, seems like the posters here would rather you STFU and go away. No one cares how outraged you are that most people think this is a horrible idea for a show.
Caring about the life of an imnocent baby is all about self interest?
Wait a second. Did you try to imply that the left does things “outside their own self-interests?”
The party that promises sheeple other people’s stuff?
YAS QUEEN.
Bring back My Mother the Car instead
I remember ”My Mother…. ” fondly over here I’m blighty (the UK). However when telling younger folk about its Oedipal storyline (inside his mother… and all that) I rightly receive blank looks or nervous laughter.
Glad I read the article rather than issue a knee-jerk reaction to the headline. Other than it is a female politician in Texas, I see no relation to the original Abortion Barbie.
It has to be “female politician in Texas”. That’s the liberal “OMG” that will get this show written by other Hollywood liberals. If it was a female politician in California or some other liberal state, no one, not even liberals, would care and turn in.
Awesome!
Will the show include how she thanked her husband for raising their kids and paying for her college education by divorcing him the day after he made the final payment and then, once in politics, claiming to be for one thing when she was really for another depending on which way the wind was blowing at the time? She’s no role model. Just a gold digger, deadbeat mother, compulsive liar and all round political whore. Naturally, liberals put Abortion Barbie on a pedestal because that’s how they roll.
Naturally
The husband comes out as gay in episode 2. That would allow her leaving him for years with the kids as a benefit since he was a “closet” homemaker and Mr. Mom. Then in episode 2 she divorced him to set him free from evil church marriages. And, he’s not only a gay character, he’s obviously liberal, but a “gay liberal Texan”! OMG. Hollywood will loose control into their Depends.
Bingo! Nailed her.
Is the show a comedy about the clown Texas voters were laughing about when they went to the polls and rejected 3-1?
You don’t anything about that relationship. Except the story that was repeated for the benefit of the right wing during her campaign for Texas Governor. For all we know it was probably an abusive or Toxic relationship. Leaving was possibly the smart thing for her safety or continued progress in life.
In life sometimes you have to leave negative people behind or go right through them in order to become your better self.
Wendy Davis literally did nothing special. Geesh!!
Funniest thing about this project is that the voters soundly rejected Wendy Davis and she lost in a landslide and her only fans are the loony-left SJW types.
“Davis and Cecil are repped by UTA”???
Since when is Davis an actor/performer? I thought she was a despicable poiltician.
This just shows how utterly out of touch those in the industry are with mainstream America. If you think a “comedy” about a late-term abortion supporting liberal politician in the wake of the Planned Parenthood videos is going to “play in Peoria” you are out of your mind.
Faked videos, you are not mainstream America much as you assume your views are the majority, and a show does not need Peoria to be successful.
9/11 and the holocaust were fake videos too, right?
Nope. Next.
Heavily edited videos, how about that?
only “edited” in the sense that the entire 4 or 5 hour videos aren’t shown on the news, but you can go watch them raw if you dare.
In other words, “edited” in the same fashion that every other piece of video that you have ever seen in your life has been edited. That’s why the claim that this is a flaw is such a disingenuous lie.
Wow, NBC celebrates baby killers.
So this show will fail like Wendy Davis failed?
Yes it will likely fail harder than her political career.
Is TV only be made for women?
Oh pleezzee Hollywood. She was wack-a-doddle. Let’s rewrite history and make her heroic because she’s a democrat, and she cares…
Do these media twits ever go outside their bubble?
What a ghoulish concept for a show.
The nutjobs are coming out in force for this one!
*gets popcorn ready*
Will it deal with the real woman’s abandonment of her real children to pursue her education and political ambitions and gold-digging motivations for marrying the husband she also turned her back upon? How do you make a villianess into a heroine? Only at NBC, I guess.
Ah, yes. A Leftist champion, resoundingly rejected by Texans who thought her pink shoes insufficient qualification to be governor. How dare they !
Yay. Another TV show about lawyers, and Ivy League lawyers at that. Yay.