NCIS star Wilmer Valderrama is producing a brand new comedy for CBS. Identified for his breakout function as Fez in That ’70s Present, Valderrama joined the long-running procedural as Particular Agent Nicholas “Nick” Torres within the NCIS season 14 premiere. He is been a mainstay of the franchise since then, serving to to bridge the hole between Mark Harmon’s exit and Gary Cole’s arrival.
Valderrama has ventured past the display, working as a director and a recording artist. He additionally printed a memoir, An: American Story: Everybody’s Invited, which was launched in September 2024. The veteran performer is transferring ahead with one other enterprise that is slowly taking form.
Deadline stories that Valderrama is a part of the manufacturing workforce behind Blanks, which facilities on a serial dater who has his life upended when he learns that his organic clock is working out. That is made even worse by the truth that he is met the girl of his desires, although she’s not able to quiet down simply but.
The mission, which is described as being in its early levels, hails from comic Aaron Karo. He’ll additionally write the script and govt produce alongside WV Leisure, Valderrama’s manufacturing banner, and CBS Studios.
What This Means For CBS
Comedy Is Making A Comeback
CBS and broadcast tv are typically strong with procedurals of all stripes, together with the returning NCIS. However there are far fewer comedies. With the ending of The Conners earlier this 12 months, ABC has solely Abbott Elementary in its comedy ranks. NBC has Glad’s Place and St. Denis Medical. CBS additionally has two, with Ghosts and the Younger Sheldon spinoff, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.
DMV relies on the quick story by Katherine Heiny.
The three main networks are making strikes to strengthen their comedy choices. CBS has a lot of comedy pilots within the pipeline. Probably the most totally realized, up to now, is DMV. It is a single-camera comedy in regards to the place that everybody dreads having to go to, the DMV, with a solid that features Harriet Dyer, Tim Meadows, Molly Kearney, Alex Tarrant, Tony Cavalero, and Gigi Zumbado. It has been picked as much as sequence.
Our Take On Blanks
A Recent Focus
Courting comedies have sometimes been the area of streaming tv in recent times, with exhibits like Adults on Hulu and No one Needs This on Netflix. The announcement of Blanks, if it strikes ahead, will carry romance and questions of courtship again to broadcast in a manner that hasn’t been seen as a lot. Though romance is part of any community sequence, it is not all the time forefronted.
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Supply: Deadline
NCIS
6/10
- Launch Date
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September 23, 2003
- Showrunner
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Donald P. Bellisario
- Administrators
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Dennis Smith, Terrence O’Hara, Tony Wharmby, James Whitmore Jr., Thomas J. Wright, Michael Zinberg, Arvin Brown, Rocky Carroll, Diana Valentine, Leslie Libman, Tawnia McKiernan, Colin Bucksey, William Webb, Bethany Rooney, Alrick Riley, Jeff Woolnough, Alan J. Levi, Lionel Coleman, Martha Mitchell, Peter Ellis, Michael Weatherly, Edward Ornelas, Stephen Cragg, Tom Wright
- Writers
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George Schenck, Frank Cardea, Jesse Stern, John C. Kelley, Jennifer Corbett, Christopher Silber, Reed Steiner, Nicole Mirante-Matthews, Jack Bernstein, Scott J. Jarrett, Matthew R. Jarrett, Kimberly-Rose Wolter, Don McGill, Gil Grant, Frank Navy, Nell Scovell, Steven Kriozere, Brian Dietzen, Kate Torgovnick Might, Jeff Vlaming, Sydney Mitchel, Katie White, Richard C. Arthur, Laurence Walsh
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Sean Murray
Timothy McGee
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David McCallum
Dr. Donald ‘Ducky’ Mallard