Murder Down - ABC Gives Put Pilot Commitment to Drama starring Jada Pinkett Smith

Jada Pinkett Smith is plotting a return to the small screen.

Months after completing her one-season run on Fox's Gotham, the actress will star in and exec produce drama Murder Town for ABC.

The drama, which has received a hefty put-pilot commitment, is produced by A+E Studios and will star Pinkett Smith as a beautiful and complicated prosecutor who makes history as Wilmington, Delaware’s, first African-American district attorney. There, she finds herself confronted by old loyalties and loves as well as a shocking revelation about her murdered husband and a polarizing, racially charged case that threatens to burn her and her city to the ground.

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Murder Town will be written by Barry Schindel (Intelligence,Castle) and is based on an original script by Rob Fresco (Crossing Jordan, Heroes, Touch, How to Get Away With Murder). PInkett Smith, Schindel and Miguel Melendez will exec produce Murder Town, which also hails from Will Smith and Pinkett Smith's Overbrook Entertainment in association with A+E Studios. The drama marks the latter's first project for a network outside of A+E Networks' (UnREAL, Roots) family.

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