Upfronts 2013: CBS Picks Up Comedies From Chuck Lorre, Greg Garcia

Two single camera efforts 'We Are Men,' Robin Williams' 'Crazy Ones' also make schedule

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 5/10/2013 5:38:10 PM

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CBS ordered four new comedy series on Friday including Chuck Lorre's Mom, Greg Garcia's The Millers and - in a shift for the network - two single-camera half-hours.

The pick-up of Mom gives Lorre four half-hours on CBS' schedule along with Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory and Mike & Molly. The comedy stars Anna Faris as a newly sober single mom trying to pull her life together in Napa Valley. Allison Janney co-stars in the project from Chuck Lorre Productions and Warner Bros. Television.

The Millers stars Will Arnett as a recently divorced guy whose life is complicated by his parents' (Margo Martindale, Beau Bridges) marital problems. Garcia (Raising Hope) is writer and executive producer and James Burrows directed the pilot from CBS Television Studios.

Single-camera We Are Men from creator Rob Greenberg is about a young guy who finds camaraderie among the men he meets in a short-term rental complex. The CBS TV Studios series stars Chris Smith, Kal Penn, Tony Shaloub and Jerry O'Connell. Greenberg is executive producer along with Eric and Kim Tannenbaum.

Crazy Ones, also single-camera, stars Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar in a father/daughter workplace comedy set in the advertising world. David E. Kelley and Dean Lorey are writers and executive producers on the 20^th Century Fox Television project. Bill D'Elia, John R. Montgomery, Mark Teitelbaum and Jason Winer are also executive producers.

CBS also gave the greenlight to two new drama series, Hostages starring Toni Collete and Dylan McDermott and Intelligence starring Josh Holloway and Marg Helgenberger.