With the news that NBC won’t pick up David E. Kelley’s pilot Legally Mad (starring Kristin Chenoweth), we may be seeing the fruits of Warner Brothers’ decision to give him a development deal last year, after he’d spent two decades working almost exclusively for Fox’s television division. To indulge in my baseball analogy of the week, it’s like signing a free agent just as he is showing clear signs of being past his peak; it may be a decent PR coup to steal him away from the other team, but there may be a reason why the other team wasn’t fighting that hard to keep him.