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Henry Winkler is attached to star in a legal comedy in development at NBC titled “Last Chance Lawyer.”
In the series, Winkler would play Howard Greenberg, a hard-driving and unconventional criminal defense attorney who is a fierce advocate for his underdog clients. He believes “no matter what they are accused of, the system is always guiltier.” (Here’s hoping Howard is more competent than Barry Zuckerkorn, the attorney Winkler played on “Arrested Development.”)
“Last Chance Lawyer” is written by Mike Gagerman and Andrew Waller, who executive produce alongside Winkler, Jed Mercurio and Jimmy Mulville via Hat Trick Media. Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio behind the project.
Winkler is best known for embodying the leather jacket-wearing 1970s and ’80s icon Arthur Fonzarelli, aka the Fonz, on the ABC sitcom “Happy Days.” He recently starred opposite Bill Hader on the HBO dark comedy “Barry,” for which Winkler won his first Primetime Emmy, for best supporting actor in a comedy. As mentioned above, he also had a kooky recurring role on “Arrested Development,” and he had memorable roles opposite Adam Sandler in “The Waterboy” and “Click.” He recently starred in the crime thriller “Normal” opposite Bob Odenkirk, and his additional credits include “Night Shift,” “Here Comes the Boom,” “Heroes,” “Holes” and “Scream.” He is also the accomplished children’s book writer behind the Hank Zipzer series, and he and his co-author Lin Oliver have together penned 40 kids’ novels.
Gagerman and Waller are longtime writing partners whose Blacklist feature spec “Search Party” was produced by Universal and starred Adam Pally and Alison Brie.
Deadline broke the news.
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