OK to celebrate. Hollywood Reporter confirms it! Woo-hoo!!!
CBS is betting on stars for next season.
The network on Monday morning
handed out series orders to the "NCIS" spinoff, toplined by LL Cool J and Chris O'Donnell, legal drama "The Good Wife," starring Julianna Margulies,
medical drama "Three Rivers" starring Alex O'Loughlin, the Jenna Elfman comedy starrer "Accidentally on Purpose," as well as the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced ensemble medical drama "Miami Trauma."
As a precursor to the orders, the network over the weekend gave most of the projects a greenlight to start making offers to writers and directors.
Additionally, the network is ordering unscripted series "Undercover Boss," an U.K. format described as "Secret Millionaire" meets "Dirty Jobs."
The "NCIS" spinoff, "Three Rivers," "The Good Wife" and "Accidentally" are produced by sister studio CBS TV Studios, while "Trauma" comes from Warner Bros. TV.
The "NCIS" spinoff, "Wife," "Rivers" and "Accidentally on Purpose" had been early standouts at the network, while "Miami Trauma" picked up steam in the final couple of weeks.
There had been speculation that CBS may only launch one medical drama, but the network ultimately opted to go with both "Rivers,"
starring one of its signature players, "Moonlight" star O'Loughlin, and "Trauma," produced by its top drama producer, Bruckheimer.
The pickup of "Trauma" makes for another strong pilot season for Bruckheimer, whose both pilots, including ABC's "The Forgotten" got orders.
The multi-camera "Accidentally on Purpose," from writer Claudia Lonow, is about a movie critic (Elfman) who gets pregnant after a fling with a younger man, and the unconventional family that comes from the mistake. Jon Foster, Ashley Jensen, Grant Show and Lennon Parham co-star.
The show looks like a good companion for "The New Adventures of Old Christine."
It also means that Jensen, who left "Ugly Betty" at the end of this season, will be back in primetime next season.
The "NCIS" spinoff, introduced in two episodes of the veteran crime drama this spring, hails from "NCIS" exec producer/showrunner Shane Brennan.
The cast also includes Louise Lombard, Peter Cambor and Daniela Ruah
Written by Robert King and Michelle King and directed by Charles McDougall, it stars Margulies as a politician's wife who joins a law firm as an associate. Archie Panjabi, Christine Baranski, Chris Noth, Matt Czuchry, Josh Charles and Graham Phillips co-star in the project, exec produced by Robert and Michelle King, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and David Zucker.
Penned by Carol Barbee, "Rivers" is a medical show about organ transplants seen through three points of view: the doctors, the donors and the recipients.
Co-starring opposite O'Loughlin are Christopher J. Hanke, Justina Machado, Katherine Moennig, Daniel Henney and Julia Ormond.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/con ... b9d6f1bb7c
(except for ML's cancellation which floored most of us even though it had been on the bubble.)
Sounding good! I'll save the major celebrating until Wednesday, but I have to do this right now! 
Alum is short for alumnus...as in a graduate or former employee, etc. It's used many different ways.
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