Greg Malins-Greg Berlanti Comedy Lands At CBS With Put Pilot Commitment

EXCLUSIVE: Using the network purchasing season winding lower, heavyweights Greg Malins and Greg Berlanti obtained a put pilot commitment at CBS for any half-hour project the 2 is going to be co-writing and executive creating together. The project originates from Warner Bros. TV where both Malins and Berlanti are based. It focuses on well known womanizer Nick who, after making it through any adverse health scare, realizes that “The One” he'd never found is really his closest friend of fifteen years, Wendy. Issue is Wendy is engaged to some guy Nick likes, she and Nick own a company together as well as their attempt for dating in college would be a disaster. For Malins and Berlanti this marks their second purchase at CBS this year. Former Buddies and just how I Met Your Mother executive producer Malins is co-writing/executive creating with Bill Lawrence a multi-camera place of work comedy, which lately arrived an airplane pilot production commitment in the eye network. And Everwood creator Berlanti is executive creating a Nick Wootton-composed cop drama, with a put pilot commitment at CBS. Malins has strong ties to CBS. Additionally to his stint being an executive producer around the CBS/20th TV Generate An Income Met Your Mother, younger crowd works as a talking to producer around the systems hot new comedy series Two Broke Women, from WBTV. This marks the very first half-hour comedy effort for Berlanti that has made his mark around the hourlong side as showrunner on Siblings & Siblings and Dawson’s Creek and co-creator of these series as Eli Stone with no regular Family. The purchase takes Berlanti’s 2011 batting average to 4-for-4. This really is his 4th put pilot commitment this development season, his first at WBTV, from 4 pitches removed. Another 3 take presctiption the drama side, all composed by close Berlanti collaborators: a higher-concept crime drama project at NBC with author Maggie Friedman, a legitimate drama at Fox composed by Marc Guggenheim and Wootton’s cop drama at CBS. Malins and Berlanti are with WME.