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EXCLUSIVE: NBC has handed a script commitment plus penalty to Lewisburg, a drama inspired by the life of actor Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire, The Deuce). The project hails from Akinnagbe, American Gothic creator/executive producer Corinne Brinkerhoff, Dan Lin’s Rideback, Craig Turk’s Thinking Hat, and CBS TV Studios. Lewi…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS is developing The Eshmun Protocol, a conspiracy thriller drama from Ford v. Ferrari co-writer Jason Keller, Rina Mimoun (Mistresses), Craig Turk (FBI), Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS TV Studios where Rideback has a first-look deal. Written by Keller, The Eshmun Protocol centers on a combat engineer who…

EXCLUSIVE: CBS has put in development Drift, a drama from Black List writer Christopher Salmanpour (The Promise), and executive produced by Anna Fricke (Valor), Craig Turk (The Code, The Good Wife) and Dan Lin (Lethal Weapon). CBS Television Studios, where Turk and his Thinking Hat Productions are under a deal, is the…

CBS has given pilot orders to two projects featuring key auspices from the network’s praised legal drama The Good Wife: crime drama Killer Instinct, starring and executive produced by The Good Wife cast member Alan Cumming, and Perfect Citizen, a legal drama written and executive produced by former Good Wife executive…

CBS has put in development Jumpmen, an hourlong drama from former The Good Wife executive producer Craig Turk and Jane the Virgin executive producer Ben Silverman. Co-written and executive produced by Turk and Grant Thompson (McFarland USA), Jumpmen centers on Air Force pararescue jumpers who find, treat, and recover…

The Good Wife executive producer Craig Turk is back at CBS with a new legal drama project, Perfect Citizen. Written by Turk, Perfect Citizen centers on the former general counsel for the NSA who, after his involvement as a whistleblower in an international scandal, embarks on a new career at a storied law firm in…

After a four-year stint on the ABC/ABC Studios medical drama Private Practice, writer/producer Craig Turk is moving to CBS TV Studios with an overall deal. Under the pact, Turk, a former attorney, will serve as a consulting producer on the studios’ acclaimed CBS legal drama The Good Wife and develop his own original…