CBS is making good on its push for multicamera comedies.
The network has picked up half-hour The Great Indoors to pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The comedy revolves around an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss of a group of millennials in the digital department of a magazine.
Tosh.0‘s Mike Gibbons will pen the script and exec produce the CBS Television Studios multicamera comedy.
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Great Indoors marks CBS’ fourth multicamera comedy pilot order this season as new network topper Glenn Geller has been looking for a “big family multicam.” It joins Superior Donuts, the Kevin James straight-to-series entry and The Kicker, from the 30 Rock/Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt producers.
Great Indoors is the network’s sixth comedy pilot overall and joins hybrid entries My Time/Your Time and the untitled Butler/Hope/O’Shannon at the network. CBS currently is the only broadcast network without a single-camera comedy this pilot season.
Keep up with all the latest pickups, castings and eventual series orders with THR’s handy guide to pilot season.
