CBS and The Good Wife and The Good Fight creators Robert and Michelle King are going back to court.
The network has given a series order to the couple’s legal drama Cupertino for the 2026-27 season. The pickup comes after CBS announced in May that it would open a writers room for the show and commissioned 13 scripts. Cupertino will also reunite the Kings and Evil star Mike Colter, who has a lead role in the series. Colter also had recurring roles on The Good Wife and The Good Fight.
Cupertino is named after the California city that’s home to Apple’s headquarters. The show’s logline reads, “Cupertino is a David vs. Goliath legal drama set in the heart of Silicon Valley that follows a lawyer (Colter) who is being cheated out of his stock options by his former employer, a tech startup. Refusing to back down, he joins forces with another recently fired attorney 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.”
CBS Studios, where the Kings have been based for 15-plus years and where they have an overall deal, is producing the series. Michelle and Robert King are writers and co-showrunners and executive produce via their King Size Productions along with Liz Glotzer. Robert King will direct the series premiere.
The Kings are also co-creators and executive producers of Elsbeth on CBS, which follows Carrie Preston’s Good Wife and Good Fight character as she becomes a consultant with the NYPD (Jonathan Tolins is the showrunner).
Cupertino is one of two new series CBS has on tap for the 2026-27 season. Einstein, a crime procedural starring Matthew Gray Gubler, initially received a series pickup for the current season but was pushed back a year.
