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EXCLUSIVE: Seventeen years after Jerry Bruckheimer Television took its first major stab at multi-camera comedy series with a sale at CBS, the company is back on the multi-camera sitcom beat
with another project in development at the network. Titled _CDC_, the multi-camera workplace comedy hails from _Superior Donuts_ co-developers/executive producers Neil Goldman and Garrett
Donovan; JBTV; Picture It Productions; and CBS Television Studios, where JBTV and Picture It are under deals. Written by Goldman and Donovan,_ CDC_ sounds like a spiritual successor to CBS’
mega-hit _The Big Bang Theory_. It is about a group of socially awkward scientists and their ambitious new co-worker who struggles to find a balance between her career aspirations and
loyalty to her unlikely new friends. WATCH ON DEADLINE Goldman and Donovan executive produce with JBTV’s Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman and KristieAnne Reed and Picture It Productions’ Lance
Krall, Peter Siaggas and Peter Stathopoulos. CBS TV Studios produces in association with Jerry Bruckheimer TV. Goldman and Donovan most recently co-developed and executive produced workplace
multi-camera comedy_ Superior Donuts_, which aired on CBS for two seasons. The writing-producing duo began their TV careers as staff writers on animated comedy _Family Guy,_ then spent
eight seasons on _Scrubs —_ rising to executive producers — and three years as executive producers on _Community__. _They are managed by Circle of Confusion. The Atlanta-based Picture It,
JBTV and CBS TV Studios previously developed together including a Josh Reims military medical drama last season, which also was set up at CBS. Jerry Bruckheimer TV, known for its roster of
drama series from the _CSI_ franchise to _Lucifer_ and_ L.A’s Finest,_ made its foray into multi-camera sitcoms in 2002 with a half-hour written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, from Warner
Bros. TV where JBTV was based. It landed a seven-figure pilot commitment at CBS but did not go to pilot. For the past 17 years, JBTV largely has stayed in the drama lane with occasional
comedic one-hours, like the WB series _Just Legal. CDC_ represents a fresh attempt by the company to crack the sitcom space. 2019 CBS Pilots & Series Orders