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NBC’s pilot order of ‘Rex Is Not Your Lawyer’ in Universal lap
MUMBAI: A pilot order of legal comedic drama Rex Is Not Your Lawyer has been handed by NBC to Universal Media Studios.
Written by Andrew Leeds and David Lampson, the film centers on a lawyer who suffers panic attacks and takes up coaching clients to represent themselves in court.
Rex was one of the first projects Berman and Lloyd developed after the 2007 launch of their company. They originally sold it to NBC that year under their first-look deal with NBC Universal. It first was sidelined by the writers strike; then NBC brass passed on it.
But Berman and Braun remained high on the project and, after the recent regime change at the network with Angela Bromstad taking over as entertainment president and Laura Lancaster as head of drama, they took the script to them.
Leeds and novelist Lampson got their break as TV writers in 2005 when their comedy script Stephen‘s Life.
