Bochco headed back to TV sets

Steven Bochco, one of television’s most successful producers but absent from prime time since the spring of 2006, will return this year with a new legal drama for TNT.

The cable channel said Thursday it has ordered 10 episodes of “Raising the Bar,” a series about lawyers who went to school together but now find themselves working on opposite sides of the aisle. It will star Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben, Jane Kaczmarek, Teddy Sears and Melissa Sagemiller.

Bochco, 64, who created the series with David Feige, previously produced “Hill Street Blues,” “L.A. Law” and “NYPD Blue.”