Pauley Perrette Sitcom Broke and Patricia Heaton’s Second Act Among 4 Comedies Ordered to Series at CBS
A quartet of comedy pilots just landed a spot on CBS’ schedule for the 2019-20 season. The Eye Network has ordered to series Bob ❤️ Abishola, Broke, Carol’s Second Act and The Unicorn, TVLine has learned.
Here’s the breakdown of each new project:
Hailing from EP Chuck Lorre, Bob ❤️ Abishola (or Bob Hearts Abishola, for the emoji-averse) stars Mike & Molly‘s Billy Gardell as a middle-aged sock businessman from Detroit who suffers a heart attack. When he unexpectedly falls for his cardiac nurse, a Nigerian immigrant (played by Folake Olowofoyeku), he sets his sights on getting her to give him a chance. Lorre also penned the pilot, along with EPs Eddie Gorodetsky and Al Higgins.
Broke centers on an outrageously wealthy trust fund baby who is cut off by his father, prompting him and his wife to move into her estranged sister’s Reseda home — and the two siblings are forced to reconnect. Jane the Virgin‘s Jaime Camil and NCIS vet Pauley Perrette lead the cast, while Jane showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman serves as an executive producer.
Sitcom veteran Patricia Heaton stars in Carol’s Second Act, which follows Carol Chambers as she embarks on a unique path after raising two children and retiring from teaching: pursuing her dream of becoming a doctor. Kyle MacLachlan, Ito Aghayere, Jean-Luc Bilodeau and Sabrina Jalees round out the cast. Emily Halpern and Sarah Haskins (Good Girls, black-ish) wrote the pilot script, and Pamela Fryman (How I Met Your Mother) directed the episode.
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Last but not least, The Unicorn — the lone single-cam project in this batch of comedies — follows a recent widower (played by Walton Goggins) as he navigates the most difficult year of his life. A tight-knit group of friends and family helps him move on as he raises two daughters and takes the major step of dating — only to find, to his shock, that he’s a hot commodity. The cast also includes Rob Corddry and Michaela Watkins.
In addition to these four comedies, CBS has also picked up the dramas Evil, from Good Fight creators Robert and Michelle King; FBI: Most Wanted, a spinoff of the Dick Wolf procedural FBI; and All Rise, starring Simone Missick and Wilson Bethel.
Which of these new comedies might earn a spot on your DVR? Tell us in the comments below.
Oh hurray, super happy for Jennie and Jaime! Jane is the best show on TV, love that they’ll continue working together
So thrilled to see Patricia Heaton and Billy Gardell`s new shows. They`re like comfort food. Just really good to see them again.
I wasn’t sure Unicorn would get picked, the other 3 sounded like easy picks for CBS. I would have expected Emporer of Malibu to make the cut.
Hmmm… could unicorn pair with LiP, if its renewed?
So, NBC is losing THE VILLAGE?
Any word on Republic of Sarah?
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Republic of Sarah was the only CBS pilot I was interested in. Guess the premise was too exotic for the boring, bland, whitebread old-folks network CBS is. They should’ve offered it to The CW instead.
On behalf of all of the “boring, bland, whitebread old-folks”– bite me. Just can’t make a comment without insulting people right? I do love an immature ageist 12 year old…
As someone who was a 12-year-old (45 years ago), I’m offended by the comparison. ;-)
👍, from a 62 yr or largely whitebread women lol.
Patricia Heaton is always welcome on my DVR list. Have loved her since “Raymond” – plus her show premise sounds very relatable.
Bob Hearts Abishola sounds like it might be a good show. Will check it out.
I am happy that Pauley Perrette got a new gig, but I’m not a comedy fan myself or at least not sitcoms, I do watch comedy movies sometimes, depending on who’s in them! But most sitcoms tend to bore me after a few watches! But I hope for her sake it does well!
Happy about these pickups.. EVIL will no doubt be interesting given the track records of Robert and Michelle King;
No thanks for various reasons.
Love Billy Gardell but not enough to watch that.
Broke sounds OK but can’t stand Pauley Perrette.
Nothing and no one in the Heaton vehicle sounds interesting.
The Unicorn sounds too Hallmark-y.
Yawn.
I love Billy Gardell and cant wait to see him again! It was ridiculous to cancel Mike n Molly w a baby coming, I hope he gets his “due” from that foolishness!!
Everything sounds good except “Bob Hearts Abishola”, just doesn’t do anything for me.
I really love Pauley and will certainly watch her show, however this is a tough one to pull off. The others sound cookie cutter.
It will be good to see Pauley Perrette back on TV. Hope the show is good.
I will definitely record Broke! I stopped watching NCIS when she left.
I would watch anything pat heaton is in. Attractive, funny and a true comedian without trying.
Bob (Hearts) Abishola: Un-owned; I hope this becomes Chuck Lorre’s first one-season dud since “Disjointed”. Couldn’t Mr. Lorre have at least had this be a co-production with CBS TV Studios? If this becomes a success and is renewed for multiple seasons, we may have another “2BG”/”LiP”-style tragedy on our hands (Read: Cancelled with no proper send-off no matter what).
Broke: I’m surprised this was picked-up, since I doubted this will happen because that title alone reminds me of “2BG”. Change the title to something that doesn’t, and you’ve got a success right there. Otherwise, hard pass.
The Unicorn: Hmmm…don’t know about this one. I’ll abstain until I see its place on the schedule.
I guess the network’s best hope is Carol’s Second Act. Let’s see if that gets picked-up for over seven seasons and 150 episodes. CBS is going to need a sitcom that’ll reach that milestone. And they better get a more interesting comedy slate for 2020-21 so they can get rid of that mediocre Man with a Plan.
And lastly, they should have thought about picking-up a Howard & Bernadette spin-off of TBBT to soften the blow of losing the most-watched scripted series on U.S. broadcast-network TV. That would have been the last-ever un-owned comedy I’d be satisfied about CBS picking-up.