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 has kicked off its pilot-to-series orders with nods to two multi-camera comedies, Welcome to the Neighborhood, starring Cedric the Entertainer, and Untitled Damon Wayans Jr. project (fka Untitled Austen Earl/Tim McAuliffe), Both sitcoms come from CBS sibling CBS TV Studios. And if CBS is sticking to its playbook…

Former Don’t Trust the B— star Dreama Walker has been tapped as the female lead opposite Josh Lawson and Cedric the Entertainer in CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot Welcome to the Neighborhood, from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Jim Reynolds and directed by James Burrows, Welcome to t…

Former House of Lies co-star Josh Lawson is set as the lead in CBS' multi-camera comedy pilot Welcome to the Neighborhood. Survivor’s Remorse alumna Tichina Arnold also has been cast in a major series regular role in the project from Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Jim Reynolds and…

Cedric the Entertainer (The Soul Man) is set to co-star in and executive produce Welcome to the Neighborhood (fka Here Comes the Neighborhood), CBS’ multi-camera comedy pilot from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Jim Reynolds and directed by James Burrows, Welcome to the…

Vice Principals alum Sheaun McKinney and Marcel Spears (The Mayor) have booked series-regular roles in CBS’ newly retitled multi-camera comedy pilot Welcome to the Neighborhood (fka Here Comes the Neighborhood), from The Big Bang Theory veteran Jim Reynolds, Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by…

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…

CBS has given a pilot production commitment to Here Comes the Neighborhood, a multi-camera comedy from The Big Bang veteran Jim Reynolds, Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios. Written by Reynolds, Here Comes the Neighborhood centers on the nicest guy in the Midwest who moves his family into a tough…