CBS Picks Up NCIS: Legend, Good Wife, Three Rivers, Miami Trauma

CBS handed out series orders to the NCIS spinoff, starring 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 Accidentally on Purpose, as well as Jerry Bruckheimer’s medical drama Miami Trauma. Additionally, the network is ordering unscripted series Undercover Boss, an U.K. format described as Secret Millionaire meets Dirty Jobs.

The NCIS spinoff, introduced in two episodes of the veteran crime drama this spring, comes from NCIS executive producer/showrunner Shane Brennan. The cast also includes Louise Lombard, Peter Cambor and Daniela Ruah

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.

Written by Robert King and Michelle King and directed by Charles McDougall, The Good Wife 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, executive produced by Robert and Michelle King, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott and David Zucker.

Written by Carol Barbee, Three 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.