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Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders

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2023 CBS Pilots & Series Orders

2023 CBS Pilots & Series Orders

4 Series Orders

Drama

ELSBETH (Picked up to series)

After her successful career in Chicago, Elsbeth Tascioni, an astute but unconventional attorney, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner brilliant criminals alongside the NYPD. Spinoff from 'The Good Wife' and 'The Good Fight.'

Studio CBS Studios

Team Jonathan Tolins (ep, sr), Robert King (w, d, ep), Michelle King (w, d, ep), Liz Glotzer (ep),

Cast Carrie Preston, Wendell Pierce, Carra Patterson

MATLOCK (Picked up to series)

After achieving success in her younger years, the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock rejoins the work force at a prestigious law firm, where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases and expose corruption from within. Based on the series 1986-95 CBS series.

Studio CBS Studios

Team Jennie Snyder Urman (w, ep), Joanna Klein (ep), Eric Christian Olsen (ep), John Will (ep), Kathy Bates (ep), Kat Coiro (d, ep)

Cast Kathy Bates, Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter, David Del Rio, Leah Lewis

TRACKER (Ordered straight to series)

Colter Shaw is a lone-wolf survivalist who roams the country as a “reward seeker,” using his expert tracking skills to help private citizens and law enforcement solve all manner of mysteries while contending with his own fractured family. Based on the novel 'The Never Game' by Jeffery Deaver.

Studio Twentieth Television

Team Ben H. Winters (w, ep), Ken Olin (d, ep), Justin Hartley (ep), Hilary Weisman Graham (ep)

Cast Justin Hartley, Robin Weigert, Abby McEnany, Eric Graise, Fiona Rene, Mary McDonnell

Comedy

POPPA'S HOUSE (Picked up to series; multi-camera)

FKA Untitled Wayans Father/Son Project

Legendary talk radio host and happily divorced “Poppa” has his point of view challenged at work when a new female co-host is hired and at home where he finds himself still parenting his adult son, a brilliant dreamer who is trying to pursue his passion while being a responsible father and husband.

Studio CBS Studios

Team Kevin Hench (w, ep), Damon Wayans (ep), Damon Wayans Jr. (ep), Andy Ackerman (d, ep)

Cast Damon Wayans, Damon Wayans Jr., Essence Atkins, Tetona Jackson

JUMPSTART (Not going forward)

Set in Philadelphia, it follows Joe, a cop; his wife Marcy, a nurse; and Joe’s partner Crunchy. Joe and Marcy are young, hip, urban parents with old-school values who are willing to sacrifice for their kids and have some laughs while doing it. Based on the long-running comic strip by Robb Armstrong.

Studio CBS Studios

Team Wayne Conley (w, ep), Aaron Kaplan (ep),, Wendi Trilling (ep), Melanie Frankel (ep), Bridget McMeel (ep), Robb Armstrong (co-ep), Kelly Park (d, ep)

Cast Terry Crews

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