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EXCLUSIVE: A new TV series is being developed, loosely based on the life of famed criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos. The production/management company The Firm’s Jeff Kwatinetz and entertainment lawyer Kenny Meiselas have acquired the rights to produce the TV series. This comes after the three men worked together…

“Mark is a master manipulator of the press,” longtime Larry King Live producer Wendy Walker said of criminal defense attorney Mark Geragos during ABC’s TCA panel for new drama Notorious. Notorious is inspired by the relationship between Geragos and Walker, both of whom are EPs on the series. Written by Drop Dead…

ABC is wrapping the bulk of its pilot pickups today with several more orders, to drama Notorious, based on Mark Geragos, from Josh Berman and The Firm; and four comedies: Shondaland’s Toast, written by Felicity alums and long-time friends Scott Foley and Greg Grunberg; Hail Mary, an adaptation of the Austrian series Br…

UPDATED, 12:50 PM: A judge today postponed sentencing again for acting coach Cameron Thor, who was convicted in August of lewd conduct, after Thor’s lawyer filed a pair of late motions. Mark Geragos, the famed attorney and frequent CNN legal commentator who was hired in October, told Deadline he filed the motion for a…

Notorious, a drama from an eclectic group of executive producers that includes top attorneys in criminal and entertainment law, a popular blogger and a veteran CNN producer and executive, has landed at ABC in a competitive situation with a put pilot commitment. The project, from Sony Pictures TV and Jeff Kwatinetz’s…

CNN chief Jeff Zucker, who has vowed to shake up the network’s primetime this year, will experiment with several formats at 10 PM for five weeks. Don Lemon debuts on Monday — this time as anchor of The Don Lemon Show, leading into another new program called Making The Case at 10:30 PM. It’s Lemon’s second recent…