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Bruce Kirby, the longtime character actor whose many TV roles included recurring turns on Columbo and L.A. Law, died Sunday in Los Angeles. Kirby, the father of late actor Bruno Kirby, was 95. His son, acting coach John Kirby, announced the death in a Facebook post. A cause of death was not specified, but John Kirby…

L.A. Law, the contemporary revival of the Emmy-winning 1980s NBC legal drama, will be redeveloped. The project, from L.A. Law co-creator Steven Bochco and one of the series' original writers, Billy Finkelstein, was developed in-house at 20th Century Fox TV and was recently taken out as a spec. While the initial script…

Three months after the release of Goliath and a week after the show won a Golden Globe for star Billy Bob Thornton, Amazon still has not renewed the freshman drama series from David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro. After Thornton expressed optimism about a second season following his Globe win, Kelley shared the…

A tepid January TV spec market might get a jolt soon with an iconic title making its return. 20th Century Fox TV is expected to take out the contemporary revival of the Emmy-winning 1980s NBC legal drama L.A. Law, which was developed in-house. Co-creator Steven Bochco revealed in August that he was developing a new L.A…

Are they about to take new clients at McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak? L.A. Law co-creator Steven Bochco said this morning that he and 20th Television are developing a new take on the Emmy-winning legal drama that aired from 1986-94 on NBC. Bochco spilled the news on The Rich Eisen Show. “Over the years we’ve…

Larry Drake, a prolific actor who won two Emmys for playing the mentally challenged office worker Benny on NBC’s L.A. Law, died today, Deadline has confirmed. He was 66. L.A. Law anchored NBC’s Must-See TV Thursday lineup at 1o PM for most of its run. Drake joined the show created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise…

Richard Dysart, the stage and screen actor who won an Emmy Award in 1992 for playing senior partner Leland McKenzie on NBC’s hit legal drama L.A. Law, died April 5 in his home after a long illness. He was 86. Born March 20, 1929, Dysart got his start in radio as a teen and worked at New York’s off-Broadway Circle in…