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Bill Lawrence- Greg Malins Comedy ‘Ground Floor’ Gets Series Order At TBS

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday May 10, 2013 @ 11:43am PDTTags: Ground Floor, TBS
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: The week keeps getting better for Bill Lawrence. After getting a series pickup at Fox for Surviving Jack on Wednesday and at NBC for Undateable earlier this morning, he also just received a series order for comedy pilot Ground Floor at TBS, which recently renewed his Cougar Town. Ground Floor, which the Scrubs and Cougar Town creator wrote with former Friends and How I Met Your Mother executive producer Greg Malins, is a workplace comedy with a romantic twist that stars Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect), Briga Heelan (Cougar Town) and John C. McGinley (Scrubs). Ground Floor, which has received a 10-episode order for a 2014 launch, is being produced by Lawrence’s Doozer in association with Warner Horizon TV, with Lawrence and Jeff Ingold serving as executive producers. This marks a second series pickup for Heelan today, who also has a supporting role on Undateable. She is in first position on Ground Floor but, given the fact both series hail from the same studio and producer, it is conceivable that she might do both. TBS’ other comedy pilot, Do It Yourself, remains in contention.

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Alexis Knapp Cast In TBS’ ‘Ground Floor’, Robin Givens Joins ABC Family’s ‘Twisted’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 23, 2013 @ 8:00am PDTTags: Alexis Knapp, Ground Floor, Robin Givens, Twisted
Nellie Andreeva

Among recent TV castings, Pitch Perfect‘s Alexis Knapp was set to co-star in TBS’ comedy pilot Ground Floor, from Bill Lawrence and Greg Malins, which is toplined by another Pitch Perfect cast member, Skylar Astin, … Read More »

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J.J. Feild Cast In AMC Pilot ‘Turn’, Rory Scovel In TBS’ ‘Ground Floor’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday March 20, 2013 @ 6:42pm PDTTags: Ground Floor, Rupert Wyatt, Turn
Nellie Andreeva

British actor J.J. Feild (Captain America: The First Avenger) has been cast in AMC‘s pilot Turn. Written by Craig Silverstein based on the book Washington’s Spies and directed by Rupert Wyatt, Turn is set in the … Read More »

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Mike Colter Joins CBS Pilot ‘Surgeon General’, Duo Added To TBS’ ‘Ground Floor’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 15, 2013 @ 2:30pm PDTTags: Ground Floor, James Earl, Mike Colter, Rene Gube, Surgeon General
Nellie Andreeva

Mike Colter has been added to the cast in CBS’ drama pilot Surgeon General. which centers on Dr. John Sherman (Jason Isaacs), the most powerful doctor in the nation, the Surgeon General, who has 315 million patients. Colter, repped by Gersh, plays Dr. McCallan, the epidemiologist on Sherman’s staff. He recurs on The Good Wife and The Following and was recently in Zero Dark Thirty. Read More »

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Briga Heelan Set, Skylar Astin In Talks For The Leads In TBS Pilot ‘Ground Floor’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 11:30am PSTTags: Briga Heelan, Ground Floor, Skylar Astin, TBS
Nellie Andreeva

TBS is close to locking in the leads of comedy pilot Ground Floor. Skylar Astin is in negotiations and Briga Heelan is … Read More »

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John C. McGinley To Co-Star In TBS Pilot ‘Ground Floor’, Reuniting With Bill Lawrence

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 8:40am PSTTags: Big Deals TV, Bill Lawrence, Ground Floor, John McGinley, TBS
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: John C. McGinley, who played the acerbic Dr. Cox on Scrubs, is set to play a boss on Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence‘s new workplace comedy, multi-camera comedy pilot Ground Floor at TBS. Written by Lawrence and Greg Malins and directed by Gail Mancuso, Ground Floor is set in the world of corporate America and centers on a 29-year-old successful alpha male who crosses paths with his company’s support staff, a tight-knit group of truly happy and care-free people. McGinley will play the boss, Mr. Mansfield. Lawrence and Malins, who originally wrote Ground Floor for CBS last year, didn’t create the character with McGinley in mind but liked him a lot for the role, and so did TBS. “I’d kill to work with John on anything,” Lawrence said. Read More »

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