2020 CBS Pilots & Series Orders

CLARICE (Picked up to series)

Clarice is set in 1993, a year after the events of The Silence of the Lambs. The series is a deep dive into the untold personal story of Clarice Starling, as she returns to the field to pursue serial murderers and sexual predators while navigating the high stakes political world of Washington, D.C.

THE EQUALIZER (Picked up to series)

An enigmatic figure uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn. A new take on the character played by Edward Woodward on the original series and by Denzel Washington in the movie franchise.

GOOD SAM

A talented yet stifled surgeon embraces her leadership role after her renowned and pompous boss falls into a coma. When he awakens and wants to resume surgery, however, it falls to her to supervise this overbearing blowhard who never acknowledged her talents -- and also happens to be her father.

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (Not going for after being ordered straight to series)

Mickey Haller, an iconoclastic idealist, runs his law practice out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car, as he takes on cases big and small across the expansive city of Los Angeles. Based on the book series by Michael Connelly.

OUT THE DOOR (Pushed)

Upon learning that his impending retirement is being pushed off by several years, an apathetic NYPD detective who just wants his pension so he can go off and live the good life decides to do everything in his power to get fired, but his bad behavior only leads to surprising success at solving cases.

WAYS & MEANS

FKA The Whip

A powerful congressional leader who has lost faith in politics finds himself working secretly with an idealistic young congresswoman from the opposing party to subvert the hopelessly gridlocked system he helped create. Together, they’ll attempt to save American politics -- if they don’t get caught.

B POSITIVE (Multi-camera; picked up to series))

Faced with finding a kidney donor, newly divorced dad Drew is at the end of his rope when he runs into Gina, a rough-around-the edges woman from his past who volunteers her own. Together they form an unlikely bond and begin a journey that will change both of their lives.

GHOSTS (Single-camera)

Based on the British series, Ghosts follows a young couple, Samantha and Ryan, whose dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find it’s both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents.

FUN (Multi-camera; not going forward)

Follows a brother and a sister who always encourage each other to have fun, no matter what hardship life is in spite of the fact that the family business is a funeral home. As they say in their family: “You can’t spell funeral without f-u-n.” The brother returns to his Pennsylvania hometown to help his sister run the struggling business after his emotional and devastating breakup with show business.

JURY DUTY (Hybrid)

FKA We the Jury

Jurors are sequestered together until they all agree on a verdict -- and they can’t even agree on lunch.

THE THREE OF US (Multi-camera)

Adult siblings who are children of divorce must circle the wagons when their sister’s husband unexpectedly announces he wants to call it quits on their marriage.

THE UNITED STATES OF AL (Multi-camera)

Follows the friendship between Riley, a Marine combat veteran struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and Awalmir, the Interpreter who served with his unit in Afghanistan and has just arrived to start a new life in America.

UNTITLED KINGSBURY/DALEY/GOLDSTEIN PROJECT (Multi-camera)

When Penelope’s career takes off at exactly the same time as her husband’s, they call on Penelope’s young single mom, Georgia, to help raise their son, but what they find is Georgia needs more raising than their kid.

WILDE THINGS (Multi-camera)

FKA THE BIG BAD WOLFES; PLEASE HOLD FOR FRANKIE WOLFE; RAISED BY WOLVES

Frankie Wolfe is a very successful and fiercely independent crisis manager whose world is turned upside down when she decides to let someone into her life for the first time — an 11-year-old girl whom she adopts and raises with the occasional help of her fragile, nervous wreck of a sister.