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Pete Holmes Comedy, Sophia Bush Procedural Nab CBS Series Pickups Lesley Goldberg The network on Friday handed out series orders to Pete Holmes bowling comedy Good Sam. Both pilots had been frontrunners for the past few weeks and were expected to get the green light to join CBS’ 2021-22 schedule. CBS has also passed on all of its remaining pilots, including Patrick Dempsey’s political drama Ways and Means, Sarah Cooper’s How to Succeed and Hannah Simone’s Welcome to ...

Certain film and TV business dealings can be done remotely, including scriptwriting, dealmaking, pitching, animation, visual effects and casting, and some of the shifts in how people work together using technology may never go completely back to the way it was. Advertisement But this is still a business that depends on spontaneous, in-person interaction, said multiple filmmakers, executives and other insiders who spoke with The Times. That’s definitely the case for Mike Larocca, cofounder an...