CBS developing Fighting Words, a forensic linguistic procedural crime drama

Deadline

The potential series from writer Samantha Corbin-Miller "follows a brilliant but socially awkward female forensic linguistics professor who teams with a charming, roguish male Florida Department of Law Enforcement Special Agent and uses her unique, cutting-edge forensic skills as a human linguistic polygraph to consult on major cases where language and words play a vital component, from social media to the interrogation room," according to Deadline. Producer Jeffrey Kramer says forensic linguistics has revolutionized crime solving, adding that it "has been used to catch thousands of the nation’s most wanted, including the Unabomber. The idea that people’s words betray them and leads to the evidence is a dynamic new way to watch a procedural.”