EXCLUSIVE: There’s a new legal drama in the works at ABC from the writing team of Tawnya Bhattacharya and Ali Laventhol, who were writers and co-executive producers of Netflix’s My Life With the Walter Boys and Peacock’s Bel-Air.
The Advocate is a character-driven legal procedural centered around a brilliant, ruthless attorney who abruptly walks away from her high-powered job to open a small firm after a traumatic brain injury radically alters her personality.
Bhattacharya and Laventhol will executive produce the 20th Television-produced series alongside Isaac Aptaker, Elizabeth Berger, and Scott Morgan, through their production banner, The Walk-Up Company.
In addition to their work on Bel-Air and My Life With the Walter Boys, their credits include Ginny & Georgia for Netflix and A Million Little Things for ABC. Bhattacharya is also the founder and owner of the TV and feature writing school, Script Anatomy. They are represented by Paradigm, Adventure Media, and Yorn Levine.
Up next, Aptaker and Berger are taking on the limited series Count My Lies, which Hulu greenlighted with Lindsay Lohan and Shailene Woodley starring. The duo served as executive producers and co-showrunners alongside creator Dan Fogelman on 20th Television’s hit NBC drama series This is Us.
They also developed and executive produced the HIMYM spinoff series, How I Met Your Father, and were creators and executive producers of Love, Victor. Aptaker and Berger are represented by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller.
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