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Josh Jackson, who starred in “Dawson’s Creek,” may be returning to series television as the star of an unnamed legal drama. The pilot production crew visited Lewes Monday, March 20, to film scenes set at the beach.
After first filming on Lewes Beach, the crew shot Jackson talking on a cell phone and driving down Savannah Road from Lewes Beach to Dewey Avenue.
The production crew will also make stops in Georgetown and Greenwood before returning to Washington, D.C., where most of the show is filmed.
The pilot series is based on Kermit Roosevelt’s novel, “In the Shadow of the Law.”
Roosevelt, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, in 1999 served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David Souter, as does one of his major characters. Roosevelt later worked at major law firms in Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.
The series centers on a Washington, D.C., law firm where Mark Clayton, played by Jackson, is a first-year associate. The series will also star Allen Tudyk, former star of the Fox science-fiction series “Firefly,” who will play an arrogant Ivy-league associate. The female lead of the series is Monet Mazur, who has performed in some movies but has never worked on television. Also starring in the series are Kevin Pollack of “A Few Good Men” and “The Usual Suspects” and Jacob Pitts of “Euro Trip.”
Southern Delaware Tourism representatives worked with Delaware State Parks and the Maryland Film Office to determine sites in Sussex County where the pilot could be filmed.
Carol Mendelsohn, executive producer and writer for the series, also created and writes CSI and she is working with director Danny Cannon, who also worked on CSI.
But she says the new series will be different.
The pilot episode centers on Jackson, who just was assigned to represent a man on death row, said Mendelsohn. Jackson leaves the city and heads to get some fresh air at the beach, which was filmed in Lewes, although it will be written as a beach in Virginia. While at the beach, Jackson is approached by the father of the man he is assigned to represent and the encounter turns life-threatening, said Mendelsohn, without further elaboration.
Mendelsohn said the scenery in Lewes was right for the pilot because it is a nice clean town. In town for just a day, the crew stayed at the Biden Center at Cape Henlopen State Park, said Karen O’Neill of Southern Delaware Tourism.
The pilot is in the running to be picked up by CBS, a decision that is expected to be reached by network officials by May 16.
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