CBS is moving on to its comedy pilots. The network has ordered a pilot for ‘Rust Belt News,’ a single-camera comedy from TheSimpsons writer and TheMindyProject exec producer Matt Warburton
The project is set in a small Ohio town where the local newspaper goes out of business, leaving the ambitious, angsty reporters of the high school newspaper as the only people left to report on scandals, dig up corruption, and generally polish the rust off this rust-belt community.The Sex Lives of College, will write and exec produce. Alloy Entertainment’s Leslie Morgenstein and Gina Girolamo will also exec produce the comedy, which comes from Warner Bros Television.
The pilot order comes after Alloy founder Morgenstein renewed his deal at the studio and promoted longtime head of television Girolamo to EVP.The network has already ordered four in-cycle pilots: an untitled mother-and-son legal drama from Dr. Phil, a reboot of
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