Jane Kaczmarek (Lois) to Star in Legal Drama

Jane Kaczmarek has booked her first acting role after last season’s Help Me Help You, in which she guest starred in four episodes.

This new role is in a potential series for cable network TNT. The untitled legal drama, from Steven Bochco, the Executive Producer of NYPD Blue, co-stars Mark Paul Gosselear (NYPD Blue, Saved by the Bell) and Gloria Reuben (ER).

The pilot will focus on law-school friends who now work on opposite sides of a case. Said case is set to be presided over by Jane Kaczmarek, who will play a judge.

An Emmy nominee for each of her seven seasons on Fox’s comedy “Malcolm in the Middle,” Kaczmarek is making a dramatic turn with the TNT project, playing a stylish, imperious and a bit crazy judge who runs her courtroom like her own private fiefdom.

Kaczmarek has experience playing a judge as she voices occasional “Simpsons” character Judge Constance Harm. She is repped by Endeavor and Greenlight Entertainment.

UPDATE: Named Raising the Bar.

UPDATE: Picked up by TNT

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August 2nd, 2007