CUPERTINO (new series coming from the Kings)

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Busy Philipps will join her "Girls5eva" co-star Renée Elise Goldsberry on the new CBS drama "Cupertino" as a series regular, Variety reports. Philipps will play Natalia, billed as "the beautiful and delightfully blunt first wife of an AI billionaire, who divorced her when she turned forty. Now Natalia wants revenge and agrees to finance Michael and Olivia's start-up law firm in order to go after his and other AI businesses."

Written by Robert and Michelle King ("The Good Wife," "Evil"), "Cupertino" is described as "a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley." Mike Colter ("Evil") stars as Michael, a lawyer who was fired by a start-up trying to cheat him out of his stock options. He teams up with Olivia, another fired attorney played by "Fargo" alum Rachel Keller, to fight back against the tech titans. Goldsberry will play "a brilliant opposing attorney who has a professional and romantic history with" Michael. "Cupertino" earned a series order at CBS in October and is set to debut during the 2026-27 TV season.

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Robert and Michelle King are back in the courtroom, and all is right with the world.

Allow us to introduce into evidence Exhibit A: The just-released trailer for the Kings' new legal drama, CBS' "Cupertino." 

In the video above, we watch lawyers Michael Price (played by Mike Colter, "Evil") and Olivia Siffre (Rachel Keller, "Fargo") as they lose their Silion Valley jobs. When Michael becomes aware that his former tech start-up is cheating him out of his stock options, he and Olivia team up "to represent those taken advantage of by the tech elite, and help them fight back in a high-stakes battle against the Goliaths controlling Silicon Valley," the official logline reads.

"I thought you were a co-founder, you couldn't be fired," Olivia tells Michael in the video above as they clutch cardboard boxes containing the contents of their desks. "Thought so, too," he tells her flatly.

But they regroup quickly, forming a firm that fills a niche in the tech-heavy space: "representing the exploited," Michael explains later in the video above. 

The series hails from Robert and Michelle King, who serve as showrunners and executive-produce alongside Liz Glotzer ("Elsbeth"). The Kings' oeuvre includes the legal dramas "The Good Wife" and "The Good Fight." Colter played Chicago drug lord Lemond Bishop on both.

In addition to Rachel Keller and Mike Colter, the cast of "Cupertino" includes Ella Stiller ("The Comeback"), Nik Dodani ("Atypical"), Busy Philipps ("Girls5eva"), and Renée Elise Goldsberry ("Girls5eva"). And as you'll see in the video above, there are other familiar faces in the mix, including Stephen Pasquale ("Do No Harm") and Stephen Kunken ("The Handmaid's Tale"). 

"Cupertino" will have its series premiere on Thursday, October 8, at 10/9c, following the Season 3 premiere of "Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage" at 8 p.m., the series premiere of "Eternally Yours" at 8:30 p.m., and the Season 4 premiere of "Elsbeth" at 9 p.m.

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It looks great! I also looks an awful lot like the Amazon series Goliath. I am there for both of them.