CBS To Renew Daytime Drama 'The Bold And The Beautiful' For Two More Years

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 29, 2010 @ 6:11pm PST

CBS is sticking with both of its daytime dramas for the foreseeable future. The network just gave top-rated The Young and the Restless a three-year renewal. Now I hear that it is also close to a deal for a two-year pickup of The Young and the Restless' companion The Bold and the Beautiful through the 2012-13 season. Both soaps were created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell. The Bold and the Beautiful, which premiered in 1987, is the only half-hour daytime drama on the air.

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'Lost' Co-Star Jorge Garcia Cast In J.J. Abrams' Fox Drama Pilot 'Alcatraz'

EXCLUSIVE: Big news for Lost fans: series co-star Jorge Garcia has joined another J.J. Abrams drama about an island. Garcia is set to play a lead on the Fox pilot Alcatraz, which is executive produced by Lost co-creator/executive producer Abrams. The project, described to be "about secrets and the most infamous prison of all time," centers on a group of missing Alcatraz prisoners and guards who reappear in the present day. It chronicles the efforts of a team of FBI agents to track them down and unravel the mystery behind their disappearance thirty years prior. Garcia will play the hippy geek?Dr. Diego Soto, the world's?foremost expert on Alcatraz. Actor-comedian Garcia, who landed his first TV series role on the CBS comedy?Becker, rose to fame as one of the key cast members on ABC's hit drama?Lost. He was the first actor cast in the Lost pilot, just like he is now on?Alcatraz. The role of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes on?Lost was tailor-made for him. Similarly, he was the first and only actor the producers of?Alcatraz approached for the role of Dr. Soto. Garcia, repped by APA and KLWG Entertainment, guest stars on the Thanksgiving episode of CBS' comedy?How I Met Your Mother tomorrow night. He will also appear in an episode of ABC's midseason comedy Mr. Sunshine. Garcia is the third?Lost cast member eyeing return to primetime this season in a new drama series executive produced by Abrams.?Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn star as former special ops agents in the project?Odd Jobs, which?landed at NBC with a put pilot commitment.

Alcatraz was written on spec by?Elizabeth Sarnoff, who penned the final version, and Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, who wrote earlier incarnations. The project, from Abrams' Bad Robot Prods. and Warner Bros. TV, was bought by Fox with a pilot commitment in mid-September, and?greenlighted to pilot?a week later.?Sarnoff serves as showrunner and executive produces with Abrams and Bryan Burk. Lilien and Wynbrandt will co-executive produce and Danny Cannon will?direct the pilot, which is slated to begin in January in San Francisco and Vancouver.

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ABC Working On Action-Adventure Drama With Rob Cohen, Ethan Reiff & Cyrus Voris

EXCLUSIVE: A trio busy on the feature side -- Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, who are writing the Karate Kid sequel, and Rob Cohen who is prepping the xXx threeequel,?xXx: The return of Xander Cage --??have teamed for an action drama project, which has been set up at ABC. Reiff and Voris are writing and Cohen is attached to direct the project, which has landed a premium script commitment from the network. In the vein of Red and The Expendables, the ABC Studios-produced drama is described as a fun action-adventure show about a team of old-school CIA covert operatives (kick-ass soldier-spies) who won the Cold War in the Eighties but were then forced out due to budget-cuts in the early 1990s. Now, they have been recruited to go back to work for their country by the chief of the Special Activities Division, a go-getter young woman who is also the team leader's estranged daughter.??Reiff and Voris, who co-created/executive produced the Showtime series Sleeper Cell, came up with the idea for the project based on a pitch by producer Aaron Kaplan of Kapital Entertainment who also put the duo in touch with Cohen. All 4 are executive producing. Reiff and Voris are with UTA and Field Entertainment; Cohen is with WME.

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ABC & Mark Gordon Develop TV Cop Drama

Producer Mark Gordon has found success on TV with female-centered dramas Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice and Army Wives and crime drama Criminal Minds. Now he is combining the two in his new hourlong project for ABC. One Police Plaza is the project from ABC Studios,?a drama that centers on New York City's first female commissioner.?Linda Fairstein and?Kenneth L. Solarz are writing the script and will executive produce with?Gordon ad Deborah Spera.

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HBO and Malcolm Gladwell parcel CIA Drama

After prohibition time recreating Atlantic City Boardwalk Empire, HBO seeks to resurrect Berlin cold war era into a new project spy drama of Executive producers of the promenade, Stephen Levinson and Mark Wahlberg, The New Yorker writer/best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell and film/TV writer Charles Randolph (interpreter). Set in Berlin of the cold war, the project without a title, written by Randolph, focuses on a missionary who becomes involved in the CIA. Gladwell and Randolph, who are friends, had been working on an idea for a project to watch when they met Levinson and Wahlberg also sought to make a spy drama. The four joint and took the joint HBO where Levinson and Wahlberg have deep links as producers of the 4 series, promenade, entourage, treatment and How to Make It in America. Randolph, Gladwell, Levinson and Wahlberg will be Executive products the new project, which produced HBO in association with lever Levinson and Wahlberg closest to the hole prods.

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