CBS Snags Robin Williams for Upcoming Comedy Series Titled 'Crazy Ones'
by Zack Wells
It has been decades since Robin Williams has had steady a television gig, but this movie funny-man may be returning to our televisions very soon.
CBS has ordered a pilot for “Crazy Ones”, a half-hour comedy produced by David E. Kelly, set to star the “Mork & Mindy” alien himself.
They describe the series as a father and daughter workplace comedy, centering on the world of advertising.
The pilot is set to be directed by Jason Winer, whose screen cred includes “Modern Family” and “New Girl”.
But that’s not all! CBS has been busy ordering for the upcoming seasons.
“Anatomy of Violence”, penned by the trio behind “Homeland” (Alex Gansa, Howard Gordon, Gideon Raff), will focus on a criminal psychologist with an expertise in sociopaths who happens to be partnered with a female detective with a mutually conflicted past.
“Intelligence” is a drama pilot focusing on US Cyber Command and a unit that caters on an agent with a special gift: an implanted microchip in his brain that allows him to access the entire electromagnetic spectrum. (Make of that what you will, folks.)
Michael Seitzman wrote the pilot, and will act as Executive Producer alongside David Semel (from “No Ordinary Family” fame) and Tripp Vinson.