Tommy Westphall Universe
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Tommy Westphall Universe

Deadline is an American drama series created by Dick Wolf for NBC. It ran from October 2, 2000 to April 7, 2001 for one season.

Series summary[]

Revolving around the cast of The New York Ledger, a paper frequently seen in Law & Order, Deadline's lead character was Wallace Benton (Oliver Platt), a brash journalist who gets into and out of scrapes constantly. He is joined by his colleagues and a selection of journalist students cherry-picked from college.

Westphall connections to Deadline[]

The New York Ledger is a newspaper featured frequently in Law & Order and its other spin-offs based in New York City. It also appears in other television series outside of the Law & Order franchise including:

The paper has also appeared in film:

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