Rumours from the USA suggest that whatever happens to the David Tennant-starring NBC comedy drama Rex Is Not Your Lawyer, it certainly won’t be seen until the Autumn/Fall at the earliest.

Tennant auditioned for the role last year and recorded the pilot – about a lawyer named Rex who coaches his clients to represent themselves in order to appease his stage fright – in late 2009.

A production insider is adamant that:

“The sets are coming down this week.”

“The sets are on fold-and-hold,” maintains the insider. “They will still be available if the show is picked up for the fall.”

So, the David Tennant post-Doctor Who career mystery continues – he dropped out of Burke & Hare last week, and now the US TV role is out of the running…