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CBS has given a pilot order to We The Jury, a half-hour comedy from 9JKL co-creator Dana Klein, writer Stephanie Darrow, UK producer Big Talk Productions and CBS Television Studios. The comedy, originally sold and developed as single-camera, has been picked up to pilot as hybrid. The move is similar to last year’s…

CBS has given a pilot order to B Positive, a multi-camera comedy from Mom co-executive producer Marco Pennette, series creator Chuck Lorre, and Warner Bros. TV, where Lorre is under a deal. B Positive is the second pilot order at CBS for Lorre this cycle, joining multi-cam The United States Of Al, with his fellow Big B…

EXCLUSIVE: Claws co-star Dean Norris is set as a series regular opposite Adhir Kalyan and Parker Young in The United States Of Al, CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot from The Big Bang Theory co-creator/executive producer Chuck Lorre, fellow Big Bang executive producers David Goetsch and Maria Ferrari, TV personality and…

Long-time CBS Television Studios business affairs executive Allison Brightman has been promoted to EVP and head of Business Affairs and Operations. She replaces Dan Kupetz following his surprising recent move to Disney where he will lead business affairs for 20th Century Fox TV. Brightman will have dual report to…

It’s January, and the broadcast pilot season is kicking into high gear with pilot orders. As has been the case every year for the past five or six years, scripts are late, delaying pickups — much to the chagrin of network executives who want to get their pilots up and running early to allow more time for casting in a…

Day one of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial got underway Tuesday, with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) laying out the rules and proposing some last-minute changes in an effort to speed up the process. Tonight on the CBS Late Show, Stephen Colbert said he hopes Trump is found guilty of breaking…

Dabl, an ad-supported, multi-platform lifestyle network launched last September by CBS Television Distribution, is now cleared in 90% of the U.S., the company said Tuesday. In delivering the status report on the fledgling operation on Day 1 of NATPE, CTD also said Dabl (as in “dabble”) has acquired more than 400 hours…

Fox’s WWE Friday Night SmackDown was once again the champion of Friday night ratings, scoring a solid 0.8 for the 18-49 set in its two-hour slot and helping Fox to an overall network victory. The main attraction was the return of Kane, while Daniel Bryan beat The Fiend by yanking out his dreadlocks. The main event saw…

Now re-melded with Viacom, CBS doesn't really corporately exist anymore, but a federal judge's order Wednesday on a long-battled shareholder lawsuit will make Shari Redstone and former interim CBS CEO Joe Ianniello pretty happy. The empress of all things ViacomCBS and the current chairman of CBS Entertainment Group…

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Mark Esper have very different views on whether U.S. embassies were facing imminent threat when Trump ordered a drone strike killing Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Esper went on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday and admitted he “didn’t see” any concrete evidence that American…

CBS' FBI and FBI: Most Wanted could be joined by another spinoff in the not so distant future. Executive producer Dick Wolf has always envisioned FBI as a franchise, and pitched the original series to CBS that way from the get-go. We hear that Wolf, who co-created mothership FBI with Craig Turk, has had conversations…

For someone who opened her Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy speech by proclaiming “I’m not funny!,” former Sopranos and Nurse Jackie star Edie Falco did a fine job providing comic relief Sunday during the TCA panel for her new CBS drama series Tommy, in which she plays Abigail “Tommy” Thomas, the first female chief of…