January 25, 2012 05:25 PM PDT

Pilot Scoop: CBS Orders Drama Widow Detective

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CBS has ordered a drama pilot from CSI exec producer Carol Mendelsohn about a cop who’s basically the kiss of death.

The hour-long project, titled Widow Detective, revolves around a decorated police officer who, after losing three partners in the line of duty, becomes a surrogate husband, lover and father to their families.

David Hubbard penned the script and will serve as an exec producer along with Mendelsohn.

 

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Comments (49)

  • Is Tom Welling in it :)

    Comment by Tiva4Life – January 25, 2012 05:28 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Six seasons and a movie!

    First!

    Comment by Stephen – January 25, 2012 05:30 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Maybe I’m just not understanding the premise, but this sounds totally disturbing! Is it like Sister Wives meets a cop show?

    Comment by Aeol – January 25, 2012 05:32 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • Sounds like it.

      Comment by Mr Loiter – January 25, 2012 05:40 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • So she’s a jinx & a slut?

      Comment by dee123 – January 25, 2012 09:02 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • LOL! Thanks for the laugh dee123.

        Comment by Summer – January 25, 2012 09:14 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • This comment would have been PERFECT, if not for the fact that the character in question is a male. Makes me really wish it was a woman, because this comment was hilarious.

        Comment by alex – January 25, 2012 09:52 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • He, not she. His partners keep dying and he “takes care” of their widows. It should be called “Widow-Maker Detective.”

        Comment by mags – January 25, 2012 09:53 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • I think “Jinx and a Slut” would make an interesting show. I’d sure watch it! :-)

        Comment by Dav – January 26, 2012 07:03 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Sounds creepy.

    Comment by Mr Loiter – January 25, 2012 05:33 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • sounds really bad

    Comment by rod – January 25, 2012 05:48 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Ugh…

    Comment by JD – January 25, 2012 06:00 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • A cop becomes husband, lover and father to 3 separate families? At the same time? How’s that?

    Comment by Amy – January 25, 2012 06:02 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • He learns from watching “Big Love.”

      Comment by mags – January 25, 2012 09:54 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • It’ll be even more interesting if at least one of his partners were a woman–so he becomes a lover to her husband.

      Comment by CJ – January 26, 2012 12:47 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • This made me laugh! People at work was wondering what I was laughing about.

        Comment by SK – January 26, 2012 04:45 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • Yay! A Bisexual lead on a CBS show would be hilarious

        Comment by Hannah – January 28, 2012 09:52 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Sounds unbelievable stupid! Why not come up with new and fresh ideas … look at cable TV and what they are doing.

    And do people really need yet another crime drama on CBS? … NO!!!

    Comment by Daniela – January 25, 2012 06:02 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • Uhm, fresh ideas like adapting comic books or novels or an Israeli tv series? Uhm..

      Comment by dianna – January 25, 2012 07:46 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Sounds creepy and weird and wrong. And not the good, Dexter/Criminal Minds/Bones kind of creepy and weird and wrong.

    Comment by Laney – January 25, 2012 06:05 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Why can’t CBS develop more shows like the Good Wife? It’s the only drama worthwhile watching on that awful channel. How many crime/cop shows does one network need?

    Comment by Mark – January 25, 2012 06:22 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • maybe because the Good Wife suck I mean its so basic and right winged

      Comment by Michael – January 25, 2012 06:32 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • Right winged? How is it right winged? It’s definitely the most liberal of CBS’ line up? I don’t understand.

        Comment by Mark – January 25, 2012 06:45 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • Maybe because the Good Wife gets terrible ratings. The only reason they keep it around is because it is a favorite of the critics and the lead actress has won an award. Still, Television is a business and they are not in the business of duplicating shows that get low ratings.

      Comment by Jax – January 26, 2012 06:59 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • @jax – Receiving an average of 10 million viewers is not considered by anyone with a brain to be terrible ratings. It is well received by people who know quality versus the juvenile writing and acting on the majority of shows that receive poor ratings of about five or six million viewers. Duplication is a sign of lack of creativity; just look at all the terrible reality shows, it does not represent a stamp of approval. Quality, like intelligence, is becoming more rare these days.

        Comment by ron – January 26, 2012 10:16 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

        • First of all, ad rates for TV are not based on total viewers. Second of all, FOR CBS DRAMAS, 10 million viewers is actually low for them, one of the lowest. TGW’s 18-49 demo numbers are horrific and CBS really does only keep them around for awards. Again, total viewers do not set ad rates, and that is the choice of those who buy network ads, aka the advertisers.

          Comment by muffy – January 26, 2012 03:09 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • The Good Wife is CBS’s only unwatchable drama.

      Comment by MaryAnn – January 27, 2012 05:59 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • That’ll teach me to read the headline more carefully! Thought it said Window Detective. Mind you, that does actually sound more promising.

    Comment by Richard – January 25, 2012 06:25 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • This made me laugh, too! Thanks!

      Comment by SK – January 26, 2012 04:46 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Umm.. .any other knee-jerk WTF reactions out there?
    Some of the pilots this year are just wayyyyy too out there.

    Comment by Danielle H – January 25, 2012 07:36 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I’m…intrigued, even though I have enough cop shows to watch.

    Comment by Sally – January 25, 2012 09:27 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • John Ritter starring in the man with three wives.

    Comment by Loki – January 25, 2012 10:16 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • It sounds like a real stinker.

    Comment by Jane – January 25, 2012 10:18 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Oops my bad, Beau Bridges, starring in The Man With Three Wives 1993.

    Comment by Loki – January 25, 2012 10:18 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Boring!

    Comment by Phil Hersh – January 25, 2012 10:49 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • Yes TOM WELLING,I WANT TOM WELLING is a fantastic and good actor!

    Comment by sarah – January 26, 2012 03:17 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • I love Tom, but this show sounds TOO WEIRD.

      Comment by Dana – January 26, 2012 10:34 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • I love Tom but this show sounds TOO WEIRD.

      Comment by Dana – January 26, 2012 10:35 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • this sounds terrible, hope it never makes it to the air.

    Comment by alexjones – January 26, 2012 03:19 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I miss tom welling! I want TOM on my television. ok.

    Comment by mary moss – January 26, 2012 05:21 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I’m very tired, but am I missing something? “The hour-long project, titled Widow Detective, revolves around a decorated police officer who, after losing three partners in the line of duty, becomes a surrogate husband, lover and father to their families.”

    So this is a man or a woman, because it sounds like a man, but widow implies woman, so…

    Comment by Cathy – January 26, 2012 05:30 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • The detective is a man but his dead partners wives are widows.

      Comment by Pati D – January 26, 2012 03:19 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

      • Thanks, and…ick.

        Comment by Cathy – January 27, 2012 04:15 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • So…his partners die and he gets to move in on their wives and families? I think maybe they should investigate HIM for the deaths.

    Comment by Katie – January 26, 2012 07:02 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • That’s an awful name. I’ve tried saying it a couple of times out loud, and it just gets more ridiculous every time.

    “Next week, on Widow Detective…”

    Comment by Julia – January 26, 2012 08:20 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • I love tom welling is perfect!

    Comment by Nicole – January 26, 2012 08:49 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

    • I love Tom but this show sounds too awkward.

      Comment by Dana – January 26, 2012 10:37 PM PDT  Reply To This Post

  • lol wut?

    Comment by bob loblaw – January 26, 2012 09:18 AM PDT  Reply To This Post

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