Former Doctor Who David Tennant will make his U.S. TV debut in NBC’s hour-long pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He’ll play the titular Rex, a Chicago lawyer who starts having panic attacks and coaches his clients to represent themselves. David Semel (Heroes, Life) will direct the pilot.
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If only he could be The Doctor forever…
Well he mastered a standard British accent for “Doctor Who” so it will be interesting to see if he can do an American accent as well as Hugh Laurie. For those of you who don’t know, David is a Scotsman.
i think youe meant to say that he mastered an english accent, as scotland is part of britain and technicall a british accent.
He can actually do a practically flawless American accent. He did one in the Doctor Who audiobook Feast of the Drowned. I nearly sporfed my drink when I heard him. He is fantastically talented when it comes to accents, and he enjoys doing them.
This could actually be enough to get me to watch a court room drama/comedy again.
woohoo!!!… tennant on the telly every week once more!!! …as he should be…
If this pilot actually makes it to series, this will be the BEST NEWS EVER. Yes, I’m a HUGE David Tennant fangirl.
The plot sounds awful…but I will watch anything with David Tennant
he has the range for comedy and drama, but the idea looks more like 30 comedy with much of a future. Leno is in the way. A 30 min think on thursday night would be good.
I’m glad that David Tennant is doing a US pilot, but am unhappy that it’s for NBC. I would rather have it on USA or TNT.