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+ Denis Leary is exec-producing two new pilots. NBC's Fort Pit follows a
real-life Brooklyn police precinct where, he says, ''they send rookie
cops to basically have a trial by fire.'' Canterbury's Law, the actor's
Fox drama about a female lawyer, is also set in NYC. ''We're trying to
take over the whole city,'' he cracks. ''Eventually, Law & Order [will] go
off the air.''
+ J.J. Abrams will exec-produce and may direct a medical drama pilot for HBO based on Dr. Jerome Groopman's book The Anatomy of Hope, about life in the oncology ward. ''I didn't want to get involved with a show about cancer patients,'' says Abrams, ''[but] when I read the script, it was impossible to put down.''
MOVIES
+ Hank Azaria (The Simpsons) is in final talks to direct his first
feature, Outsourced, a comedy about two buddies whose factory jobs are
shipped south of the border. ''They essentially become the Norma Raes of
Mexico,'' says Azaria. Ay caramba!
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