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Reese Witherspoon to produce ABC series about 'ruthless divorce attorney' in Dallas

There's already one network series set in Dallas: Queen of the South, USA Network's English-language adaptation of the Telemundo hit La Reina Del Sur, which was based on an international bestseller and cost the city $150,000 in incentives. Now comes word of another, this one produced by Reese Witherspoon: Please Don't Go, which is for ABC.

From the sound of it, the star of Election and Wild and Legally Blonde isn't starring in the series about a "ruthless divorce attorney," which is how The Hollywood Reporter puts it. She's strictly behind the scenes, producing the hour-long drama created by Meaghan Oppenheimer (who co-wrote Zac Efron's We Are Your Friends, which grossed $758 per screen when it opened earlier this year, and an episode of Fear the Walking Dead).

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We know what it's about: "The project follows the personal and professional life of a ruthless divorce attorney in Dallas," says THR. It goes on ...

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"Raised in the trailer parks of Texas, she has left behind a life of struggle amid squalor, working her way into a corner office and mansion in Dallas' most prestigious neighborhood. But beneath her facade of togetherness, she's plagued by self-destructive tendencies and long-hidden family secrets that begin to unravel her life."

(So ... Highland Park.)

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But we don't know if it will film in Dallas -- like, say, the late, lamented Good Guys.

"All I know is what I've seen in the press," says Dallas Film Commissioner Janis Burklund. "They haven't talked to me, and I am always hesitant to guess at anything."

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Including whether the state will provide incentives for the production to film in the city in which the series is set. Dallas, which spent a small fortune to help build out a studio in the Cedars for TNT's Dallas reboot, can only kick in so much. The city relies on the Texas Film Commission to help lure productions away from incentive-rich neighbors in New Mexico and Louisiana. But earlier this year, the state Legislature gutted the Moving Image Industry Incentive Program, reducing its budget to a paltry $32 million for the 2016-17 biennium.

When asked if there'd be any dough for the Witherspoon production, Burklund said, "That's a question for the state." And the state can't answer at the moment: Texas Film Commission Director Heather Page is out of the office until Jan. 4.