NBC to just turn over America’s legal system to people who watch NBC
In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by three separate yet equally important groups: The police who investigate crime; the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders; and the jury of viewers who determine their fates by yelling at them from the couch, disseminating justice and Doritos crumbs. These are the stories that Law & Order dickwolf Dick Wolf hopes to tell with the tentatively titled You The Jury, a live, one-hour, interactive reality series he just sold to NBC. Taking a break from delving into the lives of the many sexy, shirtless civil servants of Chicago, Wolf has teamed with the producers of Top Chef and Project Runway to transform real-life civil court cases into reality entertainment, with the verdicts turned over to the people whose judgment is most unimpeachably sound: NBC’s primetime audience.