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CBS will not be picking up a second season of freshman comedy series Fam, starring The Vampire Diaries alumna Nina Dobrev and Tone Bell. The multi-camera comedy was launched without much fanfare in midseason. The series, which hails from creator Corinne Kingsbury, Kapital Entertainment and CBS Television Studios, had…

CBS's Fam season finale (0.8, 4.941M) improved, week to week, in viewers and demos, on a night the network otherwise programmed with repeats. In the demo, it up-ticked prior two 0.7's, and in line with its 0.8 average over the prior six weeks. That performance is more impressive given that this week's lead-in, a 9 PM T…

CBS is using a different approach to unveiling its winter scheduling plans this year — by genre. After announcing its midseason unscripted slate yesterday, the network today is focusing on comedy. Coming off the schedule in January/February are freshmen Murphy Brown and Happy Together; coming on are new comedy Fam and…

Bob Kushell, executive producer/showrunner of CBS’ upcoming midseason comedy Fam starring Nina Dobrev, has exited the series. I hear he was dismissed following a complaint that he had used insensitive language in the writers room. Word is that the comment in question was not of a sexual harassment nature, but it was…

CBS ordered four dramas and three comedies to its 2018-2019 slate last week, as the annual Upfronts Week hit with full force with orders, renewals and cancellations. On the comedy side, they join fellow newcomer the Murphy Brown reboot on the all-multicam slate, and on the drama side join the legal series The…

CBS is expanding its multi-cam comedy slate with its latest pilot-to-series order Fam, from writer Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom), Kapital Entertainment and CBS Television Studios. It is one of five new series orders at CBS today, along with dramas God Friended Me, Magnum P.I. The Code and The Red Line. In Fam…

Tone Bell is set as a lead opposite Nina Dobrev, Odessa Adlon, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph in CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot Fam, from Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Corinne Kingsbury, Fam is about a woman whose dreams of an upstanding life with her new fiancé, Jay (Bell), and his…

EXCLUSIVE: She’s back! Former The Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev, is returning to television and switching things up with a comedic turn as the lead of CBS multi-camera comedy Fam, from writer Corinne Kingsbury, Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Kingsbury and directed by Scott Ellis, Fam is about…

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Sheryl Lee Ralph have signed on for series regular roles in CBS comedy pilot Fam, from writer Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom), Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Kingsbury, Fam is about a woman's younger half-sister who comes to live with her and her fiancé to escape their…

Odessa Adlon (Nashville) is set for a series regular role in CBS comedy pilot Fam, from writer Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom), Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Kingsbury and directed by Andy Ackerman, Fam is about a woman's younger half-sister who comes to live with her and her fiancé to escape…

Venerable multi-camera comedy directors Andy Ackerman and James Burrows are back on pilot duty with projects at CBS. Ackerman is helming and executive producing Fam and Pandas In New York, while Burrows is directing and executive producing Here Comes the Neighborhood.  All three pilots are from CBS TV Studios and…

CBS has picked up three more multi-camera comedy pilots, Here Comes the Neighborhood, from The Big Bang veteran Jim Reynolds, Fam, from writer Corinne Kingsbury (The Newsroom) and Pandas In New York from writer Ajay Sahgal (The Carmichael Show). Here Comes the Neighborhood and Fam are from producer Aaron Kaplan. Fam…