2023 ABC Pilots & Series Orders

JUDGEMENT (Not going forward)

The series plays out over two timelines. Fifteen years from now, a woman being vetted for a Supreme Court seat recounts her experience at a prominent D.C. law firm in 2023, where the only thing more controversial than the cases was her messy love life, caught between two feuding brothers. Now, with a Supreme Court seat on the line, all of her darkest secrets are at risk of coming out, threatening her nomination, her reputation, and her marriage.

THE HURT UNIT (Not going forward)

A highly skilled team of trauma surgeons and nurses race into the field to treat the patients who won’t make it to the hospital in time. When the sick and the injured can’t get to the ER, the HURT Unit, or Hospital Urgent Response Team, brings the ER to them.

THE GOOD LAWYER (Backdoor pilot)

Legal spinoff from 'The Good Doctor' centers on Joni DeGroot, a promising young lawyer who is brilliant, funny and self-aware but has obsessive compulsive disorder. While her symptoms take a toll on her personal and professional life, her attention to detail allows her to see cases through a different lens.

HIGH POTENTIAL (Picked up to series)

FKA Untitled Drew Goddard HPI Remake

A single mom with three kids and an exceptional mind helps solve an unsolvable crime when she rearranges some evidence during her shift as a cleaner for the police department. When they discover she has a knack for putting things in order because of her high intellectual potential she is brought on as a consultant to work with a by-the-book seasoned detective, and together they form an unusual and unstoppable team. Based on the French series 'Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (HPI)'.

PUBLIC DEFENDERS (Not going forward; single camera)

Up to their earholes in student loan debt, four inexperienced public defenders work tirelessly to keep their clients out of jail. Along the way, they have to rely on one another to navigate their first defendants, the absurd court system and the copy machine that always jams.

KEEPING IT TOGETHER (Not going forward)

FKA Motherland, Drop-Off

Julia is a working mom for whom nothing is working, so she goes looking for her village. With the help of new friends Calvin and Liz, Julia discovers she just might succeed at balancing work and parenting from time to time. Based on the UK series.