Then, last pilot season, the project was back on with a different showrunner, as David Schulner took over.
If you aren’t familiar with Emerald City’s trajectory, the series got off to a rocky start.
Clearly, the show went in at least somewhat of different direction than the original premise, but it’s hard to say if the other version would have been better.
Initially, NBC ordered it straight to series, but then the network backed out of the order after the channel couldn’t get on the same page as co-creator Josh Friedman regarding the direction of the series.