Thanks to Laëtitia for the heads up.
Of course, this Conviction ABC pilot has nothing to do with the NBC 2006 short-lived Law & Order:SVU spin-off series of the same name. I dunno if they plan to change the title at some point but if they don’t, it shouldn’t be a problem. Who remembers the other show? For starters, I have to answer your burning questions about this Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) at the center of the story, ‘cos I’m sure you have a ton of them. First and foremost, yes it does exist in real life. In L.A. but also in some other cities (Dallas, Baltimore, New Orleans, New York, Chicago…). For how long? It’s pretty recent actually. The L.A. office only opened last year for instance. In 2007 for Dallas. Does it work? That I don’t know, but based on a few articles I read on the internet, this effort got a reasonable amount of fanfare and also a bit of skepitiscim. Finally, is it worth making a TV show about it? I’d say yes. At least by judging this pretty decent pilot script.
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