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EXCLUSIVE: CBS’ FBI franchise, from Dick Wolf and his Wolf Entertainment, is making a couple of changes in front and behind the camera. On the mothership series, 2020 Juilliard graduate Katherine Renee Turner has joined as a new series regular. On offshoot FBI: Most Wanted, Friday Night Lights alum David Hudgins has…

The Scandal actor and The Good Wife star won’t be teaming on the small screen, rather they will be narrating Rene Balcer’s feature documentary Above the Drowning Sea together. Above the Drowning Sea centers around those Jews who fled the Holocaust and found asylum in Shanghai thanks to Chinese diplomat Ho Feng Shan…

Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer will write, executive produce and serve as showrunner for NBC's upcoming anthology series Law & Order: True Crime — The Menendez Murders. NBC has ordered eight hourlong episodes for the anthology’s first installment which will focus on brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted…

Anika Noni Rose has been tapped for the lead in CBS’ civil rights crime drama drama pilot For Justice, written by Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer and directed by Selma helmer Ava DuVernay. The project, from CBS Television Studios, James Patterson Entertainment and Tribeca Productions, is based on James Patterson's…

Emmy Award-winning writer/showrunner René Balcer (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) has set up The Council, a one-hour international thriller woven around a murder in a remote Canadian Arctic town, with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The Council will be produced by Lark Productions and NBCUniversal International…

Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal’s Tribeca Productions has teamed with Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer and best-selling author James Patterson for a different take on the crime drama genre. The civil rights crime drama, inspired by James Patterson’s debut crime novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, has sold to CBS with…

EXCLUSIVE: A legal investigative drama at CBS is focusing on white collar criminals who are supposed to serve the people. The network has put in development Public Integrity, from Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer and Kennedy/Marshall Co. Written by Aaron Tracy (Sequestered), Public Integrity centers on the the nation's…

EXCLUSIVE: Law & Order veteran Rene Balcer has come on board CBS‘ drama pilot The Ordained as executive producer/showrunner. Balcer has a history with the project, having helped the creator, journalist-turned-author Lisa Cullen, with conceptualizing the idea when she first conceived the show in 2011. Back then, Cullen…

Rene Balcer, co-developer/executive producer of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, which started off on NBC before migrating to the USA Network, is back at USA with a new project, a drama he is writing as well as executive producing with Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment. Described as “The X-Files meets The Matrix“, Dar…

Fox International Channels has acquired first run pay-TV rights to René Balcer‘s upcoming crime series Jo in more than 120 territories. The English-language series, formerly titled Le Grand, stars Jean Reno as a veteran detective in Paris’ elite Criminal Brigade who stops at nothing to solve the most challenging…

In what’s likely to be a hot property at next week’s Mip-TV market in Cannes, Emmy-winning showrunner René Balcer is teaming with Jean Reno on English-language cop series Le Grand. The Paris-set show sees Reno play an implacable and meticulous elite cop who stops at nothing to solve mysterious murder cases. The…