David Hemingson came up with idea for ABC’s new Whiskey Cavalier when an FBI pal of his called him at 2 AM after breaking up with his girlfriend. Though he was a “gun out first through the door” kinds of guy” at the end of the day he wanted love and connection like everyone else, Hemingson said.

The high-octane, hour-l…

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Lawrence and his Doozer production company are staying put at Warner Bros. TV with a new rich multi-year overall deal. Under the significant, eight-figure pact, which I hear is for five years, the company has sold a department store comedy to NBC starring and co-written by comedian Brent Morin, who…

It’s been almost nine years since Scrubs aired its finale episode on ABC, following a run that began at NBC way back in 2001. So when the all-star cast reconvened at Vulture Festival in Los Angeles on Saturday, the big question was, would they ever do a reboot?

The answer turned out to be both yes and no, with a negati…

Former Scrubs star Sarah Chalke has reunited with Scrubs creator/executive producer Bill Lawrence for a dramedy series, which has been set at ABC for development.

Chalke will star and co-executive produce the untitled project, written by Emily Fox (Girlfriends’ Guide To Divorce), which hails from Lawrence’s Doozer…

For a second consecutive year, the CW has handed out its first two pilot orders to a high-profile reboot of a long-running series from CBS TV Studios and a project from one of Warner Bros. TV’s top producers. Last season, the nods went to Dynasty and the Greg Berlanti-produced Searchers. This time the network has…

"If it weren't my job I might not have stuck with [Life Sentence] long enough to figure out the tone of the show," one TV critic told Bill Lawrence during the TCA Q&A for the CW series. The series is about a young woman [Lucy Hale] who was diagnosed with terminal cancer and decides to “live like she was dying,” and…

CBS has closed a deal for Spaced Out, a multi-camera workplace comedy from Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence and Warner Bros. TV where Lawrence’s  Doozer Prods. is based.

Written by Lawrence, the ensemble comedy is set in the world of commercial space travel. Doozer’s Lawrence and Jeff Ingold executive produce.

A single-cam…

EXCLUSIVE: As Scandal is wrapping its seven-season run on ABC, the network has moved in to secure the next starring vehicle of cast member Scott Foley. In a competitive situation with multiple networks interested, ABC has landed Whiskey Cavalier, an hourlong action-dramedy project executive produced by Bill Lawrence…

The CW has put in development Dead Inside, an hourlong drama from writer Katie Lovejoy, Warner Bros. TV and Bill Lawrence’s studio-based Doozer Productions.

In Dead Inside, penned by Lovejoy, after surviving an explosion that killed her hotshot detective big brother, an underachieving beat cop starts seeing his ghost…

Scrubs and Spin City creator Bill Lawrence has taken to social media to let everyone know all is OK after a plane crash Friday in New York City.

Lawrence, his daughter and five others were aboard a seaplane that made an emergency landing Friday evening in the East River. No one was hurt. The seven, who were wearing lif…

The CW is keeping its hourlong comedy/dramedy brand going with a pilot order to Life Sentence, from WBTV and Lawrence's studio-based Doozer Prods, which has tapped Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale for the lead. The network also has greenlighted to pilot Insatiable, a drama from former Dexter co-executive producer Lau…

NBC has given pilot orders to three single-camera comedies from big-name auspices that all had big commitments with major penalties attached.

The untitled Charlie Grandy & Mindy Kaling project, which had a put pilot commitment, comes from The Mindy Project creator, executive producer and star Kaling and the series'…