What changes would you make to your favorite legal TV show?
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In Fox’s new sitcom The Grinder, Rob Lowe plays the lead actor of a hit legal TV show that just ended its run. He returns to his hometown, moves into the family home of his lawyer-brother (Fred Savage), and starts “working” at the family law firm, fully believing that his experience playing a lawyer on TV applies to real law practice.
In recent weeks, Above the Law took note of The Grinder and suggested seven ways that it could be improved. Among some plot and character suggestions—as well as praise for how the show acknowledges the “boring stuff” involved in legal work—it was noted that “in order to attract and retain attorney viewers,” a recent episode should have avoided misusing the expression “beg the question.”
So this week, we’d like to ask you: What changes would you make to your favorite legal TV show? (Off-air shows are OK—see our 25 Greatest Legal TV Shows gallery for inspiration.) Would you change something to make the show more realistic? Would you fictionalize a particular real-life case? Would you add more female characters? Would you write a particular annoying character off the show? Or has there been a grating depiction of a lawyer doing something that a real lawyer never do that still bothers you to this day?
Answer in the comments.
Read the answers to last week’s question: Have you ever seen humor fall flat in the courtroom?
Featured answer:
Posted by steve hickox: “I was defending a bar owner on a charge of ‘allowing minors in a poolroom.’ Funny except his liquor license was in jeopardy. My opening was: ‘I regard the hours that I spend in a pool hall to be sacred.’ The Music Man. Of the judge, prosecutor, client and audience, no one appreciated this artful comment. But I fondly recalled my mother’s Victrola.”
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