CBS makes time for "Eleventh Hour"

By Nellie Andreeva

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - CBS didn't quite wait until the eleventh hour to make its new series pickups, which include Jerry Bruckheimer's "Eleventh Hour," a sci-fi drama concerning deadly scientific experiments.

On Monday, the network also ordered the dramas "The Mentalist," starring Simon Baker; "The Ex List" (formerly "Mythological Ex"), starring Elizabeth Reaser as a woman who revisits her past relationships in hopes of finding the man who, according to a psychic, she's meant to marry; and the horror-drama "Harper's Island."

On the comedy side, the network went with the in-laws-themed "Worst Week" and the Jay Mohr-starring "Project Gary."

CBS wouldn't specify which series it picked up for fall and which for midseason, but "Harper's Island" -- a serialized story about a group of friends who are terrorized on an island off the Seattle coast -- is said to be for midseason.

CBS' renewals are going down to the wire, with the network yet to make final decision on "The Unit," "Shark," "Moonlight," "Rules of Engagement," "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and the ever-overachieving "How I Met Your Mother."

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter