'Bluff City Law' canceled; NBC's Memphis legal drama done after one season. It's finally official: NBC has canceled the set-and-shot-in-Memphis legal drama, "Bluff City Law."
Bluff City Law: Officially Cancelled; No Season Two for Jimmy Smits Legal Series on NBC. The (finally) judgment is in. NBC has officially cancelled Bluff City Law after only one season and 10 episodes.
The cast is led by Jimmy Smits (Sons of Anarchy, Dexter), as lawyer Elijah Strait and Barry Sloane playing Jake Reilly, his senior partner at Strait & Associates. What we found interesting about the show is that Bluff City Law is set and filmed in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Bluff City LawOn February 25, 2019, news outlets reported that Smits was cast as Elijah Strait in NBC drama series Bluff City Law and it was ordered straight to series on May 6, 2019. Bluff City Law brings Smits back to TV courtrooms on a steady basis for the first time in over a quarter century since his role in L.A. Law.
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