Nevertheless, there will be no resting on laurels for this ensemble. ''All that other stuff is real fine and dandy, but when they put us on Saturday, we just went to work,'' says Steve Harris, who plays the firm's passionate Eugene Young. ''Now that we're on Sundays, we have to keep the same thing in mind--go to work.''
To that end, here's what you can expect this season: Charles Durning joins the group on a recurring basis as Bobby's dad; Rebecca (Lisa Gay Hamilton) graduates to full-fledged lawyer status and a new secretary (Marla Sokoloff) takes her place; Eugene has to defend an old friend who now has a bit of a cross-dressing problem; and Bobby's former bedmates, Helen Gamble (Lara Flynn Boyle) and Lindsay Doyle (Kelli Williams), become roommates.
''It will give us a chance not to just be opposites in court,'' says Williams. ''We can be casual and see how we are at home and how different it is when we're in our suits.'' Pardon us, but isn't this the exact same setup--two female lawyers, one an assistant district attorney, buddying up in one apartment--as on Kelley's other legal hit, Ally McBeal? ''Well, on shows that's [a typical] way of having women be together,'' says Williams. ''But it is completely the same.'' In that case, all overlaps are forgiven, Mr. Kelley; just please keep chanteuse Vonda Shepard confined to the McBeal set. --KB
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