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Samuel Baum

CBS is looking to tell a story about the top doc.

The network on Monday handed out a pilot order to The Surgeon General, a medical show centered on America’s doctor — the surgeon general of the United States.

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The CBS Television Studios drama is written and executive produced by Samuel Baum, who created Fox’s Lie to Me.

Surgeon General becomes the network’s seventh drama pilot order this season, joining Toni Collette starrer Hostages, which revolves around a surgeon who is thrown into a political conspiracy, as well as an NCIS: L.A. spinoff and Beverly Hills Cop, among others.

Including Monday’s order, the network is on par with last year, when it ordered eight comedies and eight drama pilots. More are expected to come at the network this season.

Baum is repped by CAA and Jackoway Tyerman. 

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David Shore

ABC is going into business with House creator David Shore, picking up legal drama Doubt to pilot. 

Doubt, which Shore will write and executive produce, revolves around a former cop who uses his street smarts as a low-rent lawyer in order to work the system for his clients while he battles his inner demons and attempts to rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife. The project landed a pilot production commitment at the network in September.

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Shore’s legal drama marks his first project with Sony Pictures Television, where he signed a rich three-year overall deal in June following an eight-year run with Universal Television.

The drama marks his follow-up to House and the second pilot this season from an exec producer on the Hugh Laurie starrer. Exec producer Katie Jacobs also has a legal drama I Am Victor set up at NBC, based on author Jo Nesbo‘s upcoming book about a divorce attorney with a unique view of relationships. House writer Pamela Davis has terrorism drama Double Felix in development at ABC.

For ABC, Doubt marks the network’s fifth drama pilot order this season, joining Joss Whedon‘s S.H.I.E.L.D., among others. 

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James Caan

ABC added to its pilot orders Friday, picking up a reboot of British comedy Spy and a sports-themed family comedy with James Caan in final negotiations.

The half-hour single-camera Spy comedy will be written by the creator behind the Sky1 series Simeon Goulden. The ABC series follows a well-intentioned father of a highly intelligent and verbal son, who also happens to be his complete opposite, inadvertently takes a job at the secret service in order to prove himself a worthy father. The series, now in its second season, has been distributed stateside on Hulu.

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Jimmy Mulville and Helen Williams are on board to executive produce alongside Goulden, who will pen the pilot for ABC Studios and Hat Trick Productions.

Meanwhile, the untitled Cullens comedy is a single-camera comedy about Terry Gannon, a strong-willed divorced single mother who has to move back home with her estranged father — a beer-swilling former baseball player, when she reluctantly starts to coach her son’s underdog little league team and is drawn back into the world of sports she vowed to leave behind. Brothers Mark and Robb Cullen (Las Vegas) will pen the script and executive produce alongside Kaptial Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan and 20th Television.

Caan is in final negotiations to star as the father, reuniting him with the Las Vegas duo

Friday’s pickups join the previously announced five comedies, four dramas at the network, including Joss Whedon‘s S.H.I.E.L.D., which has already begun production.