Universal TV has acquired the UK rights to Proven Innocent, the new Fox legal drama starring Kelsey Grammer.
The series stars Rachelle Lefevre as Madeline Scott, a defence lawyer who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her best friend as a teenager and spent ten years in prison before being exonerated. Now running her own firm, she takes on cases for others she believes have been wrongly convicted, while the unsolved question of who really killed her friend continues to hang over her.
Grammer, best known for Cheers and Frasier, plays Gore Bellows, the ambitious Cook County state’s attorney who put Madeline behind bars and remains convinced of her guilt. Russell Hornsby, Riley Smith and Vincent Kartheiser also feature. The series was created by David Elliot.
Proven Innocent premiered in the United States on Fox in February, where its first season runs to thirteen episodes.