CBS Orders Martin Lawrence Comedy Pilot, Community Season 3 Casting News
February 24, 2012 12:27 PM PST Megan Masters
Martin Lawrence is plotting his return to the small screen nearly 15 years after his ’90s hit Martin concluded.
CBS on Friday gave the green light to an untitled comedy pilot starring the funnyman as a widowed father of two who, after losing his construction job, decides to enter the police academy and become a cop — at age 46.
Michael Green (The River, Heroes) and Sam Maydew (SLC Punk!) will write and exec produce the multi-camera project.
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• Rob Corddry (Children’s Hospital) is set to return to Community for its Season 3 finale, reprising his role as Jeff’s obnoxious former law firm buddy, per EW.com.
• Music icon Stevie Nicks will play herself in an upcoming installment of NBC’s up all Night, EW.com reports. The story finds Reagan and Ava wooing the former Fleetwood Mac frontwoman to appear on their talk show.
• Carter MacIntyre (Undercovers) has been cast as a series regular on the upcoming fourth season of Drop Dead Diva (premiering on Lifetime this summer), per The Hollywood Reporter, playing Jane’s new guardian angel.
• MTV has cancelled its animated series Good Vibes after just one season, Deadline reports.
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