Ramamurthy, Curtin Join Rex Is Not Your Lawyer

Sendhil Ramamurthy (Heroes) and Jane Curtin have joined NBC’s comedic drama pilot Rex Is Not Your Lawyer as a series regular. The show stars David Tennant as Rex Alexander, a top Chicago litigator who begins suffering panic attacks and takes up coaching clients to represent themselves in court. Ramamurthy will play an ambitious but good-natured lawyer who was in Rex’s shadow until Rex’s career switch and whose friendship with Rex becomes complicated when he falls in love with his pal’s fiancee (Abigail Spencer). Curtin, she will play Rex’s mother and mentor, a successful law professor who falls in love with Rex’s shrink (Jeffrey Tambor).

For Ramamurthy, the casting is in second position to Heroes. But, given that both shows are at the same network and are produced by the same studio, it’s safe to assume that he would be free to do the show should the pilot go to series for next season. Ramamurthy’s character on Heroes, Mohinder Suresh, was key in the series’ first couple of seasons, but his importance has been scaled down. He has appeared in three episodes so far this season.