CBS has given collection orders to a few of its 5 drama pilots, Max Thieriot’s Fireplace Nation (fka Cal Fireplace); East New York, headlined by Amanda Warren, Jimmy Smits, and So Assist Me Todd (fka Untitled Mom & Son Authorized Drama), starring Marcia Homosexual Harden and Skylar Astin. CBS shouldn’t be commenting past that however I hear Fireplace Nation, East New York and So Assist Me Todd are for fall. True Lies, from twentieth Tv, ordered as an off-cycle pilot, stays undecided as of but.
I hear CBS drama pilot, Early Version, a reimagining of the Kyle Chandler collection, in addition to all of CBS’ comedy pilots/shows, are usually not going ahead. The community this 12 months opted for all presentation orders to comedy tasks to its personal studio, CBS Studios (The Hug Machine, Somber Companion, Unplanned In Akron), whereas the one comedy from an out of doors studio, Warner Bros. TV’s Rust Bell Information, was a full pilot.
I hear CBS brass had been very proud of their crop of drama pilots this season, believed to be one of many strongest in years, whereas the group of comedy pilots didn’t function any standouts.
With CBS additionally canceling three present comedy collection, United States Of Al, B Constructive and How We Roll, the community may have the fewest half-hour collection on the schedule in awhile. The community a number of years in the past trimmed down its two-hour comedy block to at least one hour, consisting of The Neighborhood and Bob Hearts Abishola, I hear CBS might do the identical with the Thursday two-hour block.
I hear So Assist Me Todd, which has comedic overtones, might be a part of the lineup behind the 8 PM comedy block, anchored by flagship Younger Sheldon and presumably that includes breakout hit Ghosts.
So Assist Me Todd has been one of many Cinderella tales of the 2022 broadcast season. Taking an enormous blow early on when the feminine lead was recast, with Marcia Homosexual Harden changing Geena Davis, the pilot hung in there and had an enormous end with robust testing outcomes.
Listed here are particulars about CBS’ newly picked up scripted collection:
EAST NEW YORK
EPs/W: William Finkelstein, Mike Flynn
EP/D: Michael M. Robin (Skyemac Productions)
EPs: Christine Holder, Mark Holder (Marvel Avenue)
Co-EP: Andrew Maher (Skyemac)
STUDIO: Warner Bros. Tv
LOGLINE: Regina Haywood is the newly promoted deputy inspector of East New York, a working-class neighborhood on the fringe of Brooklyn. She leads a various group of officers and detectives, a few of whom are reluctant to deploy her artistic strategies of serving and defending within the midst of social upheaval and the early seeds of gentrification.
CAST: Amanda Warren, Kevin Rankin, Jimmy Smits, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Richard Sort, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Lavel Schley and Olivia Luccardi
FIRE COUNTRY (previously generally known as “Cal Fireplace”)
EPs/Teleplay Written by/Story Co-Written by: Tony Phelan & Joan Rater
EP/Story Co-Written by: Max Thieriot
EP/D: James Robust (pilot solely)
EP: David Grae
EPs: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and KristieAnne Reed (Jerry Bruckheimer Tv)
STUDIO: CBS Studios
LOGLINE: Searching for redemption and a shortened jail sentence, younger convict Bode Donovan joins a firefighting program that returns him to his small Northern California hometown, the place he and different inmates work alongside elite firefighters to extinguish large blazes throughout the area. Impressed by Max Thieriot’s experiences rising up in northern California fireplace nation.
CAST: Max Thieriot, Billy Burke, Kevin Alejandro, Diane Farr, Stephanie Arcila, Jordan Calloway, Jules Latimer
SO HELP ME TODD (previously generally known as “Untitled Mom/Son Authorized Drama”)
CBS
EP/Author: Scott Prendergast
EPs/Showrunners: Liz Kruger, Craig Shapiro
EP/D: Amy York Rubin (pilot solely)
EPs: Dr. Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw, Julia Eisenman (Stage 29 Productions)
STUDIO: CBS Studios
LOGLINE: Regardless of their opposing personalities, a gifted however directionless P.I. who’s the black sheep of his household begrudgingly agrees to work because the in-house investigator for his overbearing mom, a profitable lawyer reeling from the latest dissolution of her marriage.
CAST: Marcia Homosexual Harden, Skylar Astin, Madeline Smart, Tristen J. Winger, Inga Schlingmann and Rosa Arredondo
