“Rachel Getting Married” screenwriter Jenny Lumet has secured a put pilot commitment from CBS for her new drama about hate crimes, Deadline reports. The untitled character-based procedural counts Katie Couric among its producers.
The project, described as “‘The Good Wife’ meets ‘Homicide,’” went to CBS after a bidding war with another network.
According to Deadline, the series “centers on an elite team of investigators for the Northeast Regional U.S. Hate Crimes Unit who must confront their own biases as they keep the peace by solving myriad crimes against humanity while acting locally but thinking of the national repercussions.”
Lumet penned the pilot. In 2009, she won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture for “Rachel Getting Married,” a drama starring Anne Hathaway as a recovering drug addict who attends her sister’s wedding. The role scored Hathaway her first Oscar nomination.
Deadline writes that the upcoming drama marks the first “major scripted series sale for Katie Couric Media.” Couric’s production company is working on “Gender Revolution,” an upcoming documentary project for National Geographic. Couric has promised that the film will “teach you everything you wanted to know about gender but were afraid to ask.” The journalist, author, and newscaster is also serving as an executive producer on “Flint,” a Lifetime film about the water contamination crisis in Flint, Michigan.
