Trial & Error - Tuesdays at 9:00PM ET/PT on FOX
Premieres Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 10:00PM ET/PT

Poetry professor Larry Henderson's wife has just been murdered by being tossed outside of a window, and he is the prime suspect. But did he do it? He couldn't have done it. John Lithgow stars in Trial & Error, NBC's newest series, where he is arrested and charged with the death of his late wife. If you get to know him, you learn that there is no way that he is the type of person who could be a murderer... but then all of this evidence that says otherwise keeps falling into place. It's going to take a solid team of a high priced attorney (a northeastern one!) and his team to find him not guilty against an overzealous prosecutor who "knows" he is guilty, and is willing to make a plea bargain to let him choose the method by which he'll be executed.

Read our review here:
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2017/03/nbc-mid-season-pilot-review-trial-error.html

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/dawn-slusher/2017/03/16/nbc-targets-dumb-backwards-southerners-mockery-new-comedy

By Dawn Slusher | | March 16, 2017 | 1:19 AM EDT

Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction has obviously not watched NBC’s new “mockumentary” comedy Trial & Error (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/55087-all-episodes-talk-lithgow-lithigation/?do=getLastComment), loosely based on the real-life crime of Michael Peterson, accused of killing his wife in 2001. The series pokes fun at the recent popularity of true crime documentaries like Making a Murderer and O.J. Simpson: Made in America, and was inspired by a documentary of the Peterson murder trial called The Staircase.

Lithgow is always well worth watching. Looking good, so far (the series; case, not so much).

I've watched the first two episodes. Speaking as a criminal defense attorney turned prosecutor-- this show is HILARIOUS.