Betsy Thomas has closed a deal to join new NBC comedy series Bad Judge as executive producer/showrunner. Thomas was immediately approached for the job when Liz Brixius exited the Universal TV-produced show 10 days ago.Thomas, who is under an overall deal at Uni TV, ran NBC/Uni TV’s Whitney in its first season. She already is working on Bad Judge, which is slated to premiere on Oct. 2, with four episodes filmed before Thomas’ arrival.
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