Brooklyn gets tapped for another legal reality show
Brooklyn has long been a favored venue for film and television production companies. The Brooklyn landscape and her characters have graced the small and big screen. With the increase of reality television shows, Brooklyn remains in the forefront. Shows like Oxygen Networks’ “Brooklyn 11223” and MTV’s “Real World: Red Hook” showed the lives and relationships of Brooklyn residents.
A glimpse into the legal realities of Brooklynites has also been displayed. Last year, the genre of unscripted dramas documenting real events involving real people, came to Brooklyn’s legal community with the show “Criminal Defense-Brooklyn.” Once again, Brooklyn’s legal community will be broadcast for national viewers as the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office appears in CBS’ “Brooklyn D.A.”
The six-part series, each episode an hour in length, will look at Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes as he prepares for a contested re-election race and the work of the DA’s office in prosecuting some high profile cases. The show “follows … hard-charging prosecutors [with] larger-than-life personalities both inside the courtroom and out,” CBS said in a press release. The format and struggles involved in the filming of “Brooklyn D.A.” sound similar to those faced by the producers of “Criminal Defense-Brooklyn.”