Bruckheimer Investigates Suburban Crime

Jerry Bruckheimer is looking to add a new series to his family of CBS crime shows.

Bruckheimer, the executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and its two spin-offs, has received a pilot commitment from the network for his new series, American Crime, trade paper Variety reported.

Unlike CSI and Cold Case, which have a crime-solving bent, American Crime will revolve around the legal profession. The main character will be a female prosecutor and the series will chart her steps in putting together cases against the suspect. American Crime is set in a Midwestern suburb, a far cry from the bright lights of Las Vegas or the sprawling metropolis of New York.

The pilot episode will be written by Jim Leonard, who created FOX's ponography drama Skin, which lasted just two episodes before being cancelled. He has also written for Thieves, Night Vision and Cracker and penned the pilot episode of Eastwick, which was not picked up as a series. Leonard will serve as executive producer with Bruckheimer and Jonathan Littman, the president of Bruckheimer Television.

If American Crime receives the greenlight from CBS to proceed to series, it will be the seventh Bruckheimer production at the network. Bruchkheimer currently executive produces Without a Trace, Cold Case and the Emmy Award-winning reality television show, The Amazing Race, as well as all three incarnations of CSI.

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