EXCLUSIVE: Eight years after the end of The Good Wife, Robert King and Michelle King are developing another legal drama for CBS. Tentatively titled Cupertino, after the city in California’s Silicon Valley known as the headquarters of Apple, the project is described as David vs. Goliath legal show set in Silicon Valley.
The Kings are writing the script for Cupertino, which the duo and Liz Glotzer are executive producing for King Size Productions. CBS Studios, where Robert and Michelle King have been based for the past 15 years, is producing with their King Size Productions.
Silicon Valley is proving to be a hot drama series setting this summer. A project about the rise of the tech industry starring Rosamund Pike from Scott Galloway and Scott Z. Burns is currently being shopped to streamers.
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Robert and Michelle King created and executive produced The Good Wife, which aired on CBS for seven seasons and won five Emmys. The legal drama spawned a successful franchise with offshoots The Good Fight, which became the first original series to launch on Paramount+ predecessor CBS All Access and ran for six seasons, and breakout crime procedural Elsbeth, which is headed into its second season on CBS.
Also coming up is the Kings’ latest series, thriller drama Happy Face for Paramount+ starring Annaleigh Ashford and Dennis Quaid. Other shows the duo have created for CBS Studios over the years include supernatural drama Evil, which just wrapped its four-season run on CBS and Paramount+ as well as CBS’ political satire/sci-fi series BrainDead.
Robert and Michelle King also executive produced Showtime’s legal thriller Your Honor which has found a new audience this summer with a highly rated run on Netflix in the U.S. They are repped by UTA and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka.
Dominic Patten contributed to this report.