Madeline Sensible & Inga Schlingmann Sign up for CBS’ Mom-Son Criminal Drama Pilot; Liz Kruger, Craig Shapiro Set As Showrunners

EXCLUSIVE: Madeline Sensible (Curb Your Enthusiasm) and newcomer Inga Schlingmann are set as sequence regulars reverse Geena Davis and Skylar Astin in CBS’ mother-and-son criminal drama pilot from author/government manufacturer Scott Prendergast and government manufacturer Phil McGraw. Moreover, Liz Kruger and Craig Shapiro (Charmed) have joined as showrunners and government manufacturers.

The untitled drama follows Todd (Astin), a skilled however directionless P.I. who’s the black sheep of his circle of relatives. In spite of their opposing personalities, he is of the same opinion to paintings because the in-house investigator for his overbearing mom, Joan (Davis), a a success lawyer reeling from the new dissolution of her marriage.

Sensible will play Allison, good and top reaching, she is an E.R. trauma surgeon, Todd’s (Astin) diplomatic sister, desperate to stay the peace between Todd and their difficult mom, Joan (Davis). Allison shoulders many circle of relatives responsibilities that her two brothers shirk. Incessantly busy, and somewhat scattered, she is married to the very handsome however doltish Chuck whom she is aware of is her highbrow inferior. She is disenchanted with the picture-perfect existence Joan designed for her and is teetering on the point of taking all of it aside.

Schlingmann portrays Susan, a “fashionable criminal bombshell in Clark Kent glasses” who works with Joan (Davis). A former female friend of Todd’s (Astin), she has obviously moved on, is engaged and has simply purchased her first house. When she broke Todd’s middle years in the past it used to be as a result of she in the long run discovered him to be an excessive amount of of a kid.

Prendergast exec produces with Kruger and Shapiro, and Phil McGraw, Jay McGraw and Julia Eisenman by way of the Degree 29 Productions banner. CBS Studios is the studio.

Sensible just lately guest-starred in HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and in Paramount+s Megastar Trek: Picard. She portrayed Kat in a six-episode arc for HBO’s Crashing and in addition starred within the Fox pilot Lovestruck. On the movie facet, she will maximum just lately be observed in sci-fi dramedy Lapsis. She’s repped via Perception Leisure and A3 Artists Company.

Kruger and Shapiro lately function showrunners at the CW’s Charmed reboot. The married writing duo’s earlier showrunning/EP credit come with CBS’ Salvation and Extant. Additionally they created and government produced USA Community’s Vital Roughness and government produced and ran the writers room on Bravo’s Girlfriends’ Information To Divorce.

Schlingmann is repped via McKegney Control and Jared Bloch at Felker Toczek Suddleson Abramson McGinnis Ryan.