Networks Pick Up Bruckheimer Pilots

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer received not one, but two pilot orders for new dramas yesterday.

The first series, entitled E-Ring, is being billed as "The West Wing set at the Pentagon", according to industry trade paper Hollywood Reporter. Created by American History X scribe David McKenna and former military officer Ken Robinson, the drama pilot will be produced at NBC with a view to a debut in fall 2005 if the network decides to greenlight a series.

Over at the WB network, Bruckheimer is producing a pilot about a 17-year-old lawyer. From the pen of Jonathan Shapiro, whose credits include The Practice and Boston Legal, the series would revolve around a Doogie Howser-like lawyer and his mentor.

Bruckheimer is currently executive producer of no less than six CBS series: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Without a Trace, Cold Case and the globetrotting adventure series, The Amazing Race. The producer is also shepherding new sitcoms at CBS and the WB from writer Marsh McCall, but neither project has yet received a pilot order (story).

The original Hollywood Reporter article can be found here at Yahoo! News.

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