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CBS added to its pilot coffers Thursday, picking up comedies from the producers behind Friends, Smash and Scrubs.

Jacked Up hails from Greg Malins and Patrick Warburton, with the Rules of Engagement actor set to star as a beloved, recently retired baseball player who finds out that adjusting to retirement isn’t as easy as he thought it would be. Malins will pen the multicamera comedy script, which will be produced by Rules‘ Sony Pictures Television, Happy Madison and CBS Television Studios. Happy Madison’s Doug Robinson will join the duo as exec producers. 

The untitled Tad Quill project is another multicamera entry, which comes from from producer Quill (Scrubs, Bent). It centers on a recently widowed father as he raises his 12-year-old son while jumping back into the dating pool. Quill will write and exec produce for CBS Television Studios. 

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Finally, the untitled comedy from Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky is based another Israeli format and centers on a married mom who struggles to balance family, life and work. The single-camera entry counts Keshet CEO Avi Nir and head of programming Ran Telem, on whose format Showtime’s Homeland is based, as well as the original series co-creators Daniela London-Dekel and Dana Eden among its executive producers. Smash’s Rottenberg and Zuritsky will write and executive produce the pilot, which is set up at CBS Television Studios.

The three pickups bring the total number of comedy pilots ordered at the network to 12, split evenly between single camera and multicamera fare this season. Last season, CBS picked up eight half-hours, and ultimately ordered only two to series.

Warburton, who is also a voice actor on Family Guy, is repped by ICM Partners; Malins, whose credits include Friends, is repped by WME; Quill is repped by ICM Partners and Hansen Jacobson; Rottenberg and Zuritsky, whose other credits include HBO’s Sex and the City, are repped by WME and Felker Toczek; Keshet is repped by WME.

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Ian Sander and Kim Moses

CBS is adding another drama to its collection.

The network ordered to pilot Reckless, a sultry legal show set in Charleston, South Carolina, where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a Southern City Attorney struggle to hide their intense attraction while clashing over a police sex scandal.

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The hourlong effort, which is set up at CBS Television Studios, counts husband and wife Ian Sander and Kim Moses (Ghost Whisperer) as executive producers. Safe Haven scribe Dana Stevens will pen the pilot and serve as an EP.

Reckless marks the 11th drama project to nab a pilot order at CBS this season. It joins such entries as Shawn Ryan‘s Beverly Hills Cop and an FBI drama entitled Anatomy of Violence from Homeland creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa in contention at the network, which historically has ordered three hour-long pilots to series in May.

Sander, Moses and Stevens, whose additional credits include What About Brian and Julie & Julia, are all repped by UTA.

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Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa

CBS is doubling down on the Homeland duo.

The Showtime sister network has ordered to pilot Anatomy of Violence from Homeland co-creators Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa as well as writer/EP Alex Cary. Joining it in the net’s pilot coffers is Robin Williams and David E. Kelley‘s comedy Crazy Ones and drama Intelligence from North Country’s Michael Seitzman.

Violence, which is inspired by Adrian Raine’s upcoming non-fiction title, The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime, is familiar territory for the Homeland trio. The hourlong entry will center on a criminal psychologist with an expertise in sociopaths partners with a young female detective with whom he shares a conflicted past.

If ultimately picked up to series, Gordon would serve as the Teakwood Lane and 20th Television series’ showrunner, with long-time writing partner — and Homeland showrunner — Gansa as well as Cary on board to executive produce and write alongside him.

For Gordon, Violence marks his second pilot order this season, joining TNT’s Sean Bean drama Legends.  

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For its part, Crazy Ones stars the Good Will Hunting Oscar winner in a comedy the world of advertising and marks Williams’ return to the small-screen 30 years after he starred for four seasons on ABC’s Mork & Mindy. The single-camera comedy revolves around a father-daughter relationship at home and at work and comes after Williams’ recent guest starring roles on FX’s Louie and Wilfred.

Kelley penned the project and will executive produce for 20th Television. Bill D’Elia, who exec produced Kelley’s Harry‘s Law, Boston Legal, The Practice and Ally McBeal, is on board to exec produce the Williams vehicle as well, as are John Montgomery, Mark Teitelbaum and Jason Winer, who will direct. The comedy also marks Kelley’s return to the half-hour format decades after his second comedy, Doogie Howser, M.D.

The Williams comedy marks CBS’ second big-swing featuring a former ’80s star in as many days. On Tuesday, the network gave pilot orders to a Beverly Hills Cop follow-up from The Shield‘s Shawn Ryan and executive produced by Eddie Murphy. Kelley is repped by WME, Original Management and Gendler & Kelly. Williams is with WME and Manatt Phelps.

Intelligence, meanwhile, is centered at U.S. Cyber Command and focuses on a unit created around an agent with a microchip implanted in his brain that allows him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The drama hails from Seitzman, who will pen the pilot and executive produce alongside David Semel (No Ordinary Family), who will also direct. Tripp Vinson is also on board to exec produce the ABC Studios entry.

The cyber drama marks the second off-network sale for ABC Studios this pilot season, joining its Charlize Theron-produced Hatfields & McCoys, which is set up at NBC. 

Gordon and Gansa, who got their start together on such series as Spenser: For Hire, Beauty and the Beast and The X-Files before going their separate ways for nearly 15 years, are both repped by WME. For Seitzman, Intelligence marks his second pilot in as many years. Last year, he had fashion drama Americana set up at ABC. He’s repped by WME and Loeb & Loeb.

Monday’s pickups bring CBS’ drama haul to 10 so far this pilot season. The pair joins Beverly Hills Cop, Toni Collette-starrer Hostages and Shane Brennan’s NCIS: LA spinoff, among others. The network picked up eight drama pilots last year. On the comedy side, Crazy Ones becomes its ninth half-hour this year; CBS ordered eight last season.