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Demi Lovato is returning to scripted television in a food issues comedy that is in the works at NBC. Lovato, who got her break in the Disney Channel's Camp Rock franchise and starred in Sonny with a Chance, is to star in and exec produce Hungry, which has received a put pilot commitment from NBC. The single-camera…

NBC has given pilot green light to two comedies, multi-camera Jefferies, starring Jim Jefferies, from the stand-up comedian, writer-producer Suzanne Martin and Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner's Hazy Mills;  and single-camera American Auto, from Superstore creator Justin Spitzer and Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC has given a put pilot commitment to Freedom, a multi-camera comedy from writer-producer Suzanne Martin; Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills; and Universal TV, where Hazy Mills is based. In Freedom, written by Martin, five very different women are chosen for early release from an overcrowded…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC has handed a put pilot commitment to a multi-camera comedy starring stand-up comedian Jim Jefferies, from writer-producer Suzanne Martin, Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills and Universal TV, where Hazy Mills is based. Written by Jefferies and Martin, the untitled sitcom stars Jefferies as a…

Likely fueled by the success of the revival of Will & Grace, which is NBC’s highest rated and most watched comedy series, the network is making a push in multicamera sitcoms. It’s been a major trend during pitch season, with all Big 4 broadcast networks stockpiling on multicam projects, which are more lucrative from a…

Comedy writer-producer Suzanne Martin and Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner's Hazy Mills are reteaming for another half-hour series project, Like Family, which has been set up at NBC. Universal TV, where Hazy Mills is based, is the studio. Written by Martin, Like Family centers on two twentysomething friends who met as…

Comedy writer-producer Suzanne Martin is reteaming with Sean Hayes and Todd Milliner’s Hazy Mills for another comedy series project. The single-camera half-hour has been set at NBC. Universal TV, where Hazy Mills is based, is the studio. Written by Martin, the untitled comedy centers on a sweet, funny but lonely…

NBC has made it official, giving a series order to the multi-camera empty nesters comedy from the Hot In Cleveland team of Suzanne Martin and Hazy Mills, now titled Crowded, which stars Patrick Warburton and Carrie Preston. I hear the pilot has been a favorite of Comcast brass. Also picked up is another early…

Shelley Conn (Terra Nova) has booked a regular role in NBC's drama pilot Heart Matters. Inspired by the life of Dr. Kathy Magliato, the medical soap follows the outspoken Alex Panttiere (Melissa George), one of the rare female heart-transplant surgeons. Alex brings an innovative eye to treating patients week to week…

The Good Wife scene-stealer Carrie Preston has been cast as the female lead opposite Patrick Warburton in NBC's untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Warburton) and Martina Gunn (Preston) when their children…

Rules Of Engagement alum Patrick Warburton is set as the male lead in NBC’s untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin pilot, from Hazy Mills and Universal TV. It chronicles how things backfire for recent empty-nesters Mike Gunn (Warburton) and Martina Gunn when their children and their parents move back home. Stacy Keach…

Veteran multi-camera comedy director James Burrows has been tapped to helm the untitled Suzanne Martin comedy pilot for NBC and Universal TV and Bill Wrubel’s Joe Time for CBS and Warner Bros. TV. The untitled multi-camera Suzanne Martin project, from the Hot In Cleveland team of Martin and Hazy Mills, chronicles how…