Synopsis: Emmy Award-winning executive producers/creators Dick Wolf and Robert Palm (both from Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) enter the journalistic arena in this two-fisted drama starring Oliver Platt as a crusading New York newspaper columnist and a Pulitzer Prize winner who lives his life in boldface type and makes headlines of his own with his rabble-rousing "Nothing But the Truth" byline.

Thrice-divorced Wallace Benton (Platt) is not alone in his quest for journalistic veracity as he recruits the brightest students -- Beth (Christina Chang, "Random Hearts") and Foster (Damon Gupton, "The Loretta Claiborne Story") from his college teaching gig to assist him in turning over rocks and kicking down doors to uncover what many powerful special interests want to stay dead-and-buried.

Lending grudging assistance to Benton’s windmill-tilting is an executive assistant D.A., Benton’s well-preserved mother and his young, long-suffering editor. Lili Taylor (Mad About You) also stars.

The Cast:
Oliver Platt as Wallace Benton
Christina Chang as Beth Khambu
Damon Gupton as Charles Foster
Bebe Neuwirth as Nikki Masucci
Lili Taylor as Hildy Baker
Hope Davis as Brooke Benton
Tom Conti as Si Beekman

Production Credits:
Deadline, which is filmed on location in New York, is a Wolf Films Production in association with Studios USA Television. Michael Ritchie ("Fletch") directs.