Mike Colter reunites with Robert and Michelle King for CBS series Cupertino

After ending the supernatural drama series Evil, showrunners Robert and Michelle King continue their collaboration with actor Mike Colter on the legal drama series Cupertino.Mike Colter has previously appeared in several productions by Robert King and Michelle King, including The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and as the lead in Evil. The legal drama series Cupertino, currently awaiting a series order from CBS, is the Kings' latest project.


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Like other influential showrunners, the Kings are building their own "King-verse," in which regular actors regularly return in new roles. In this context, Colter takes on the lead role in Cupertino, which is being described as a David-versus-Goliath story set in the legal world of Silicon Valley.

The series tells the story of a lawyer (played by Colter) who is fired by a tech startup that wants to defraud him and take his stock options. Instead of backing down, he joins forces with another recently fired lawyer to advocate for the injured parties. Together, they take on the powerful Silicon Valley elite in a high-stakes legal battle.

The series has been in development at CBS since last year and received a significant boost in May when the network—after positive reception to the pilot script—decided to establish a full writers' room for twelve additional episodes. The writers' room will launch this fall, after Robert King directs an episode of the crime series Elsbeth, which returns for season three. CBS is targeting a Cupertino launch in the 2026-2027 season.

Mike Colter is known for his role as drug lord Lemond Bishop in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, and as priest David Acosta in Evil, for which he received two consecutive Critics Choice Award nominations for Best Actor in a Drama Series.

His long-standing collaboration with the Kings is reminiscent of similar creative relationships like those between Amy Sherman-Palladino and Kelly Bishop, or Ryan Murphy and Evan Peters. Besides his work for the Kings, Colter is internationally known for his role as Luke Cage in Netflix's Marvel series.