‘Great Indoors,’ ‘Man With a Plan’ Get Full Season Orders at CBS

By Michael Malone
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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CBS has announced full season pickups for The Great Indoors and Man With a Plan, ordering six more episodes apiece for the rookie comedies. The network, which prides itself on its stable schedule, previously gave full season orders to first-year dramas Bull and MacGyver and comedy Kevin Can Wait.

Starring Joel McHale, The Great Indoors is averaging 8.67 million viewers, with a 1.9 rating in adults 18-49. Starring Matt LeBlanc, Man With a Plan is averaging 6.96 million viewers, with a 1.5 rating in adults 18-49.

CBS has also ordered three more episodes of second-year medical drama Code Black.

Michael Malone
Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.