ABC is wanting to the earlier for its latest collection.

Deadline is reporting that Blair Underwood has been locked in to reprise his Jonathan Rollins role for a sequel series of strike lawful drama L.A. Law.

The sequel will be set at the McKenzie Brackman law business, which now specializes in “only the most higher profile, boundary pushing and incendiary instances.”


Deadline reviews that Underwood’s character has become more conservative about the many years, this means that viewers can anticipate lots of drama in between Jonathan and a millennial named JJ Freeman.

At the moment, Underwood is the only returning star announced, but Deadline notes that more large names will in all probability be snapped up ought to ABC hand out a formal sequence purchase.


The sequence, which spanned eight seasons from 1986-94, had an expansive solid that also involved the likes of Corbin Bernsen, Jimmy Smits, and Harry Hamlin.

Underwood will have a creative voice in the update, serving as executive-producer along with writers Marc Guggenheim and Ubah Mohamed, as properly as director Anthony Hemingway.

The family members of the late Steve Bochco, who co-created the first series, will be a section of the method through Steven Bochco Productions.

This is not the 1st time the sequence has eyed a comeback. A broadcast reboot was effectively into the advancement phase, but by no means landed a official sequence order.


As a substitute, it was put on the backburner, with an eye of it later materializing for cable or streaming, nicely away from the broadcast networks.

Continue to, folks will likely be way extra fascinated in a continuation, as opposed to forgetting the past and popping up with a whole new crop of solid associates.

Tv continuations are inclined to have a far better observe record than outright reboots, but only time will notify if ABC pulls the trigger on a comprehensive series pickup.

Specified the erosion in broadcast scores, networks are wanting to revive and reboot after-incredibly hot sequence now a lot more than ever.


It is anticipated that these exhibits will have a built-in audience that will, at the quite least, check out out the series opener.

This has been the scenario with the myriad of reboots and revivals, which generally start off potent and tail off when the curiosity factor wears off.

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