CBS orders Mentalist, Eleventh Hour, Mythological Ex


CBS has made its pilot pickup calls, greenlighting two comedies and four dramas for its 2008-09 sked.

The half-hours are "Worst Week," based on a British format, from scribe Matt Tarses and Universal Media Studios; and "Project Gary," starring Jay Mohr as a recently divorced dad, from ABC Studios and scribes Ed Yeager and Ric Swartzlander.

Dramas are as expected: Jerry Bruckheimer\'s "Eleventh Hour" and "The Mentalist," from Warner Bros. TV; "The Ex List" (formerly "Mythological Ex") from 20th Century Fox TV; and murder mystery "Harper\'s Island," from CBS Paramount Network TV.

Source: Variety.com

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CBS has started making its series orders.

The network on Monday morning ordered the dramas "Eleventh Hour," from Jerry Bruckheimer, the Simon Baker starrer "The Mentalist," and "Mythological Ex" as well as the untitled Ed Yeager comedy starring Jay Mohr. Also picked up for midseason was the John Turteltaub-directed horror-drama "Harper\'s Island."

"Mythological," starring Elizabeth Reaser as a woman who, after learning from a psychic that she already has dated the man she\'s supposed to marry, revisits all her past relationships in the hopes of finding him, has been renamed to "the ex-list."

Source: Hollywoodreporter.com