High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Firm is a legal-drama television series, created by Lukas Reiter for NBC, Global and AXN, that is adapted as a sequel to the 1991 John Grisham novel of the same name and its 1993 film adaptation in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The television adaptation is set ten years after the novel and film. It is executive produced by John Grisham, John Morayniss, Michael Rosenberg, Noreen Halpern, and Lukas Reiter. It premiered in Canada and the U.S. as a two-hour special on January 8, 2012 and assumed its regular time slot on January 12, 2012, replacing Prime Suspect in the Thursday night lineup of both Global and NBC. The series premiered on AXN on February 19, 2012.