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Mike Colter Leads CBS’s Silicon Valley Legal Drama 'Cupertino'

With a writers’ room now under way, the series remains poised for a 2026-27 season order.

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Overview

  • Mike Colter will star as a lawyer wrongfully fired by a Silicon Valley start-up that cheated him out of his stock options.
  • CBS commissioned a full writers’ room and ordered 12 additional scripts in May 2025, with writing set to begin this fall.
  • Veteran showrunners Robert and Michelle King are writing and executive producing the project under their King Size Productions banner alongside Liz Glotzer.
  • Produced by CBS Studios, Cupertino is still ungreenlit but is widely expected to be picked up for CBS’s 2026-27 programming slate.
  • Colter reunites with the Kings after key roles on The Good Wife, its spin-off The Good Fight and the supernatural drama Evil, exemplifying their ‘King-verse’ talent strategy.