{"id":2041,"date":"2011-04-29T11:07:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2041"},"modified":"2011-04-29T11:07:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T19:07:48","slug":"possible-new-nbc-series-the-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/possible-new-nbc-series-the-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible New NBC Series, The Firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nbc_logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2042\" title=\"nbc\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nbc_logo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nbc_logo1.jpg 288w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nbc_logo1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nbc_logo1-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nbc_logo1-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/nbc_logo1-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a>NBC is interested in adding a new suspense drama to their lineup, by  picking up a show from the best-selling John Grisham novel, The Firm.  The original novel was released in 1991, and a movie by the same title  was produced in 1993, starring Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n<p>The novel\u2019s copyrights are currently owned by Paramount Pictures and  the new 22-episode series is produced by EOne Television. The production  company has already sold The Firm to over 125 territories throughout the  world.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot episode is two-hours long and was written by Lukas Reiter.  The series begins 10 years after the end of the movie, with main  character Mitch McDeere leaving a Witness Protection Program. He was  responsible for the destruction of a mob run law firm located in  Memphis. The script places the family back in a dangerous situation.  Author Grisham and writer Reiter are the executive producers for the  show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC is interested in adding a new suspense drama to their lineup, by picking up a show from the best-selling John Grisham novel, The Firm. The original novel was released in 1991, and a movie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,14],"tags":[1175,1171,907,1172,1173,1174],"class_list":["post-2041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-2","category-entertainment","category-featured-news","tag-john-grisham","tag-nbc","tag-new","tag-show","tag-the-firm","tag-tom-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2041"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2041\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}