CBS Orders Legal Drama Pilot From EP/Writer Scott Prendergast
variety.comSelome Hailu CBS announced a pilot order for a currently untitled drama series from Scott Prendergast for the 2021-22 development season.
Prendergast will serve as writer and executive producer.In the series, a talented but directionless private investigator who is the black sheep of his family begrudgingly agrees to work as the in-house investigator for his overbearing mother, a successful attorney reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage.Prendergast is known for writing, directing and starring in the 2007 comedy film “Kabluey,” which follows a woman (Lisa Kudrow) struggling to keep her life together while her husband is away in Iraq, until her brother-in-law (Prendergast) shows up to help.
Prendergast also wrote for the Elijah Wood and Jason Gann-led FX comedy “Wilfred” based on the Australian series of the same name.
Additionally, he played the recurring role of Scott in HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” Along with Prendergast, executive producers of the untitled legal drama include Phillip McGraw a.k.a.
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