Mike Colter is headed back to CBS for a reunion with the creators of Evil. He’s set to star in Cupertino, a new legal drama from showrunners Robert and Michelle King. The series is on track to premiere during the 2026-27 broadcast TV season. According to reports, the series has not yet been formally greenlit by the network, but is still racing ahead on production.
Cupertino is described as a David vs. Goliath legal drama. Colter will star as a lawyer working for a Silicon Valley start-up company who gets unjustly fired, allowing his employers to cheat him out of his lucrative stock options. Looking to strike back, he joins forces with another lawyer in similar circumstances to represent those victimized by today’s tech titans. The series is named after Cupertino, California, a city in Silicon Valley that is home to the headquarters of a number of tech firms; it was once the home of Hewlett-Packard, and is now the site of Apple‘s massive home base, Apple Park.
Who Is Mike Colter?
Colter‘s first screen role was as a boxer in the Oscar-winning Clint Eastwood drama Million Dollar Baby. He is likely best known for playing the street-level Marvel hero Luke Cage: he debuted as the character on the TV series Jessica Jones, then led his own eponymous spin-off series for two seasons and joined with his fellow Netflix MCU compatriots on the team-up miniseries Defenders. Rumors abound that he may reprise the role in a future Marvel project. Colter has an extensive history with the Kings. He played drug lord Lemond Bishop on their legal drama The Good Wife, and reprised that role in its Paramount+ spin-off, The Good Fight. He subsequently led their supernatural drama Evil, playing David Acosta, a war correspondent turned priest who joins a team sponsored by the Catholic Church to seek out supernatural phenomena. Initially broadcast on CBS, it moved to Paramount+ after its first season. Critically acclaimed, it ended with its fourth season in 2024. This year, he starred with Sylvester Stallone and Scott Eastwood in the actioner Alarum.
Robert and Michelle King will write and serve as executive producers for Cupertino via King Size Productions. Liz Glotzer (Elsbeth) also executive produces. It is a production of CBS Studios, which has produced all the Kings‘ projects since The Good Wife.
Cupertino is in development, and is expected to premiere during the 2026-2027 CBS season.
via Collider