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Carol Mendelsohn, the former showrunner of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, has scored a pair of broadcast development sales. Mendelsohn, who is working with Dick Wolf on Law & Order spinoff For The Defense, is remaking Swedish legal drama Heder for NBC and developing coroner crime drama Body Farm for CBS. The projects…

Dick Wolf is spearheading another extension of his venerable Law & Order franchise, and this time he has partnered with one of the key auspices behind another hugely successful procedural drama franchise from the last two decades, CSI‘s Carol Mendelsohn. NBC has given a straight-to-series order to Law & Order: For the…

NBC has put in development Prism, a Rashomon-inspired drama from Daniel and Ben Barnz’s We’re Not Brothers Productions, Carol Mendelsohn, Julie Weitz and Universal TV, where Mendelsohn and Weitz are under an overall deal. Written by Daniel Barnz, who also directs, Prism is a provocative exploration of a murder trial…

NBC has put in development Einstein, based on the popular German series, from writer Michael Reisz (Shadowhunters), Carol Mendelsohn, Tariq Jalil’s Intrigue Entertainment and Universal TV, where Mendelsohn’s Carol Mendelsohn Prods. is based. tWritten by Reisz, Einstein follows a whip-smart, smooth-talking and…

In a competitive situation, NBC has bought for development Capital, a drama series from Carol Mendelsohn Productions,Julie Anne Robinson’s CannyLads Productions and Universal TV where both companies are based. Written by Sean Finegan, Capital centers on Special Agent Joanna Ward who heads up an elite Washington, D.C.…

After four years at Sony Pictures TV, Carol Mendelsohn is moving to Universal Television. The former CSI maven and Julie Weitz, both principals of Carol Mendelsohn Productions, have signed an exclusive overall producing deal with Universal TV. Under the pact, the duo will develop new projects for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Former CSI: Crime Scenes Investigation star Jorja Fox is returning to CBS and reuniting with former CSI executive producer Carol Mendelsogn for a starring role in drama pilot Chiefs. Fox has been tapped as one of the three leads opposite Alana De La Garza and Aunjanue Ellis in the pilot from Mendelsohn and…

EXCLUSIVE: A late marquee drama package with Carol Mendelsohn writing and Morris Chestnut starring has landed at Fox with a big put pilot commitment that has hefty penalty attached. The project, The Long Walk, which brings Rosewood star Chestnut back into the Fox fold, hails from Sony Pictures TV Studios where…

EXCLUSIVE: In a very competitive situation with all major broadcast networks pursuing, CBS has landed Chiefs, an hourlong drama from David Hudgins, Carol Mendelsohn and Sony Pictures TV Studios, where both are under overall deals. In one of the biggest buys so far this season, Chiefs has garnered a hefty pilot…

EXCLUSIVE: It looks like thriller drama pilot Doomsday, from producer Carol Mendelsohn and Sony Pictures TV, will go to series after all. I’ve learned that Sony TV is exploring a series order for the project, originally set up at ABC this past development season where it did not go beyond the pilot stage. While pickup…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is believed to be the biggest sale so far this season, ABC has landed Doomsday, a thriller drama from producer Carol Mendelsohn (CSI), writers Mark Bianculli & VJ Boyd (Justified) and Sony TV. I hear ABC got the project in a three-network bidding by giving it a pilot production commitment that has…

Based on a Turkish drama, Game of Silence is a tale of childhood abuse, reinvention the prison industrial complex, class and hierarchy, frayed friendships and loves and political corruption. "As Larenz Tate keeps saying, 'this is a such a dark show and complicated show, it should be on cable,'" EP Carol Mendelsohn…