Fighting Words

Fighting Words, a forensic linguistic procedural crime drama, has been put into development at CBS.

The project, from writer Samantha Corbin-Miller (Absentia, Law & Order: SVU, Conviction), Jeffrey Kramer’s Juniper Place Productions and CBS TV Studios, follows a brilliant but socially awkward female forensic linguistics professor who teams with a charming, roguish male Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent and uses her unique, cutting-edge forensic skills as a human linguistic polygraph to consult on major cases where language and words play a vital component, from social media to the interrogation room.