CBS is has greenlighted three more drama pilots, and surprise, only one is a crime procedural.
The network has picked up the pilots for the Shawn Ryan-produced Confessions of a Contractor, the medical drama The Eastmans and I, Witness, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Ryan, who created FX’s The Shield and CBS’ The Unit, is exec-producing Contractor, based on Richard Murphy’s book of the same name. The novel relates the story of a successful Los Angeles contractor who is torn between two women — who just happen to be his clients and have a mystery in their shared pasts.
Murphy has written the pilot and will also serve as co-executive producer with Jeff Okin and Paul Green.
Eastmans, from writer-executive producer Margaret Nagle and Warner Bros. TV, is the third medical pilot CBS has been looking at along with the organ transplant-centric Three Rivers and Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Miami Trauma, about trauma surgeons.
Eastmans centers on a complicated family of doctors.
On more familiar ground is the crime procedural I Witness, from CSI: NY exec-producer/showrunner Pam Veasey and supervising producer Trey Callaway.
I Witness revolves around the adventures of a detective/professor who uses her psycho-physiological skills to solve crimes.
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