CBS Orders Seven New Series

by Noelle Gruber
May 13, 2012 at 12:55 pm

Our TV coverage continues with CBS ordering seven new series to their lineup. The casts are very impressive and include a comedy from the creators of Will & Grace starring David Krumholtz and Michael Urie, and a drama starring Dennis Quaid and Jason O’Mara.

Here are the show descriptions of what you can expect in the Fall on CBS.

Here’s logline/casting/pedigree info on the new series…

* Made In Jersey (Sony Pictures TV, Fanfare, CBS Television Studios)
EP: Kevin Falls, Tarses, Julia Franz
W/EP: Dana Calvo (Franklin & Bash), co-exec prod
CAST: Toni Trucks (Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Janet Montgomery (Entourage), Felix Solis (The Good Wife), Erin Cummings (Spartacus: Blood and Sand)
Centers on a working-class woman who uses her street smarts to compete with her more polished colleagues at a tony Manhattan law firm.

* Elementary (CBS Television Studios, Timberman/Beverly Prods.)
DIR/EP: Michael Cuesta (Homeland)
EP/W: Rob Doherty (Medium)
EP: Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly
CAST: Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone) as Sherlock, Lucy Liu as Watson, Aidan Quinn (Prime Suspect)
Created by: Arthur Conan Doyle
Modern take on the cases of the pipe-smoking private eye with Sherlock now living in NYC.

* Friend Me (CBS Television Studios and Tannebaum Co.)
EP: Alan Kirschenbaum, Ajay Sahgal,Kim and Eric Tannenbaum.
DIR: Pamela Fryman
Centers on twenty-something best friends, Evan and Rob, who move from their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana to Los Angeles to begin their exciting new lives working at Groupon.

* Golden Boy (Warner Bros. TV)
EP/ Writer: Nicholas Wootton
EP: Greg Berlanti
EP/DIR: Richard Shepard
CAST: Kevin Alejandro (True Blood), Chi McBride (Pushing Daisies), Stella Maeve (The Runaways), Theo James (Downton Abbey), Bonnie Somerville (Cashmere Mafia)
Show about the making of a man – tracks one cop’s meteoric rise from officer to detective to Police Commissioner.

* Partners
W/EP: Will & Grace creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick
DIR: James Burrows
CAST: David Krumholtz (Numb3rs), Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill), Michael Urie (Ugly Betty), Brandon Routh (Chuck), Elizabeth Regen, Lucy Davis (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip)
Architects Charlie and Louis’ friendship has lasted longer than either of their romantic relationships and almost seems like a weird marriage. When Charlie decides to propose to his girlfriend, Louis’ neurotic attempts to be supportive nearly result in the breakup of his own relationship.

* Vegas (CBS Television Studios)
W/EP: Nicholas Pileggi (Goodfellas) and Greg Walker (Without a Trace)
DIR/EP: James Mangold (Walk the Line)
EP: Cathy Konrad and Arthur Sarkissian (Rush Hour).
CAST: Carrie-Anne Moss, Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis (The Shield)
Set in the 1960s and is based on the true story of Ralph Lamb – rodeo cowboy turned longtime Sheriff of Las Vegas.

* The Job finds contestants competing for a different dream job every week.