CBS has picked up the dramas “Hostages” and “Intelligence” and the comedies “We Are Men,” “Mom,” “The Crazy Ones” and “The Millers” for the 2013 – 2014 season. Here is more on each show:
HOSTAGES
EP/W/D: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
EP: Rick Eid
EP: Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, Omri Givon, Rotem Shamir, Chayim Sharir
Based on the Israeli format created by Alon Aranya, Omri Givon and Rotem Shamir
Studio: Jerry Bruckheimer Television i/a/w Warner Bros. Television
Cast includes: Toni Collette, Dylan McDermott
Logline: A family is caught in the middle of a grand political conspiracy that will change their lives forever.
INTELLIGENCE
EP/ Writer: Michael Seitzman
EP/Dir: David Semel
EP: Tripp Vinson
EP: Rene Echevarria
Studio: CBS Television Studios/ABC Studios
Cast includes: Josh Holloway, Marg Helgenberger, Meghan Ory
Logline: INTELLIGENCE is centered at US Cyber Command, and focuses on a unit that has been created around one agent with a very special gift, a microchip that has been implanted in his brain that allows him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
WE ARE MEN
Half-hour, single camera
Creator: Rob Greenberg
EP: Rob Greenberg, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum
Writer: Rob Greenberg
Studio: CBS Television Studios
Director: Rob Greenberg
Cast includes: Chris Smith, Kal Penn, Tony Shalhoub, Jerry OConnell
Logline: A young guy finds camaraderie living among the more experienced guys he meets in a short-term rental complex.
MOM
Half hour, multi-camera
EP: Chuck Lorre, Eddie Gorodetsky
Producer: Gemma Baker
W: Chuck Lorre & Eddie Gorodetsky & Gemma Baker
D: Pamela Fryman
Studio: Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. in association with Warner Bros. Television
Cast includes: Anna Faris, Allison Janney
Logline: A newly sober single mom tries to pull her life together in Napa Valley.
THE MILLERS
Half- hour, multi-camera
EP/W: Greg Garcia
D: James Burrows
Studio: CS Television Studios
Cast includes: Will Arnett, Margo Martindale, J.B. Smoove, Beau Bridges
Logline: a recently divorced guys life gets more complicated when his parents have marital problems of their own.
CRAZY ONES
Half-hour, single camera
EP/W: David E. Kelley
EP/W: Dean Lorey
EP: Bill DElia, John R. Montgomery, Mark Teitelbaum
EP/Director: Jason Winer
Studio: 20th Century Fox Television
Cast includes: Robin Williams, Sarah Michelle Gellar
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