Exclusive: Fighting Words, a forensic linguistic procedural crime drama, has been put into development at CBS.
The project, from writer Samantha Corbin-Miller, Jeffrey Kramer’s Juniper Place Productions and CBS TV Studios, follows a brilliant but socially awkward female forensic linguistics professor who teams with a charming, roguish male Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent and uses her unique, cutting-edge forensic skills as a human linguistic polygraph to consult on major cases where language and words play a vital component, from social media to the interrogation room.
Corbin-Miller and Kramer, who has an overall deal at CBS TV Studios, executive produce, with Jenna Nicholson serving as producer.
“I was immediately fascinated by this emerging science and how it’s revolutionizing crime solving,” Kramer said. “Forensic linguistics has been used to catch thousands of the nation’s most wanted, including the Unabomber. The idea that...
The project, from writer Samantha Corbin-Miller, Jeffrey Kramer’s Juniper Place Productions and CBS TV Studios, follows a brilliant but socially awkward female forensic linguistics professor who teams with a charming, roguish male Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent and uses her unique, cutting-edge forensic skills as a human linguistic polygraph to consult on major cases where language and words play a vital component, from social media to the interrogation room.
Corbin-Miller and Kramer, who has an overall deal at CBS TV Studios, executive produce, with Jenna Nicholson serving as producer.
“I was immediately fascinated by this emerging science and how it’s revolutionizing crime solving,” Kramer said. “Forensic linguistics has been used to catch thousands of the nation’s most wanted, including the Unabomber. The idea that...
- 11/15/2019
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW has put in development American Fighter, a drama from writer Tory Walker (I Am Elizabeth Smart), Jeffrey Kramer’s Juniper Place Productions and CBS Television Studios, where Juniper Place is under a deal.
Written by Walker, American Fighter revolves around JoJo Raines, who has a dead end life in a dead end town, hanging out with her friends because there’s nothing else to do and venting her frustrations with her fists in stupid fights of her own making. Until she gets into it with the wrong people and is assigned community service at the veteran’s rehabilitation hospital. There she meets a wounded warrior who teaches her how to hone her aggression in the form of Mma fighting. Through her training, she begins to find a sense of purpose and even a possible future, as long as the rest of the problems in her life, and her own self-destructive behavior,...
Written by Walker, American Fighter revolves around JoJo Raines, who has a dead end life in a dead end town, hanging out with her friends because there’s nothing else to do and venting her frustrations with her fists in stupid fights of her own making. Until she gets into it with the wrong people and is assigned community service at the veteran’s rehabilitation hospital. There she meets a wounded warrior who teaches her how to hone her aggression in the form of Mma fighting. Through her training, she begins to find a sense of purpose and even a possible future, as long as the rest of the problems in her life, and her own self-destructive behavior,...
- 10/11/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW is getting into the mixed martial arts ring.
Variety has learned that the broadcaster is developing a one-hour drama about a young woman who begins training in Mma. Titled “American Fighter,” the series follows JoJo Raines, who has a dead end life in a dead end town, hanging out with her friends because there’s nothing else to do and venting her frustrations with her fists in fights of her own making.
That is until she gets into it with the wrong people and is assigned community service at the veteran’s rehabilitation hospital. There she meets a wounded vet who teaches her how to hone her aggression in the form of Mma fighting. Through her training, she begins to find a sense of purpose and even a possible future, as long as the rest of the problems in her life, and her own self-destructive behavior, don’t take her down first.
Variety has learned that the broadcaster is developing a one-hour drama about a young woman who begins training in Mma. Titled “American Fighter,” the series follows JoJo Raines, who has a dead end life in a dead end town, hanging out with her friends because there’s nothing else to do and venting her frustrations with her fists in fights of her own making.
That is until she gets into it with the wrong people and is assigned community service at the veteran’s rehabilitation hospital. There she meets a wounded vet who teaches her how to hone her aggression in the form of Mma fighting. Through her training, she begins to find a sense of purpose and even a possible future, as long as the rest of the problems in her life, and her own self-destructive behavior, don’t take her down first.
- 10/11/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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