Jane Lynch and Katey Sagal Tom Cooper/Getty Images for Global Down Syndrome Foundation, Monica Schipper/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text NBC is adding to its pilot roster with orders for two comedies. The two projects, both multi-camera comedies, bring the network's total to eight for this season - one more than all the broadcast networks ordered last year. One, an untitled show from New Adventures of Old Christine creator Kari Lizer, will star Jane Lynch and Katey Sagal. The second, Newlyweds, is from creator Gail Lerner (Will & Grace, Black-ish) and follows a later-in-life marriage. NBC now counts three comedies among its pilot crop, with these two joining an untitled, single-camera show from Brooklyn Nine-Nine alumni Dan Goor and Luke Del Tredici about an L.A. private eye. The network has also ordered five drama pilots, among them a Rockford Files reboot, as it stages a mini-revival to the once frenetic network pilot season. (ABC and CBS have each ordered two pilots so far this development cycle, bringing the all-network total to 12.) Related Stories TV NBC Makes a Splashy New Hire for Its NBA Coverage: Caitlin Clark TV What's Late Night TV In the TikTok Era? 'The Tonight Show' Finds a New Formula The pilot starring Lynch and Sagal is loosely inspired by the real-life friendship between therapists Pepper Schwartz and Janet Lever, who are consulting producers. The logline reads, "Ginger (Sagal) and Jill (Lynch) have always been a team as opposites that work best together. As they sort their past and look toward their future, they'll discover that in spite of it all, they wouldn't change a thing." The project comes from Paramount Television Studios, making it the first NBC pilot from an outside studio this year. Lizer is writing and executive produces with Lynch, Sagal, and Krista Vernoff, Andrew Stearn and Alexandre Schmitt of Trip the Light Productions. Newlyweds is "a later-in-life love story about a free-spirited woman and a buttoned-up professor who marry impetuously after a whirlwind courtship." Universal Television is producing. Lerner wrote the pilot and will executive produce with Jamie Lee Curtis, Eric Tannenbaum, Kim Tannenbaum, Scott Schwartz and Lionsgate Television. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Live Feed Streaming Ratings: 'Stranger Things' Sets Another Record With Series Finale Live Feed 'Grey's Anatomy' Debuts Electric Ambulance: "We're Hoping to Start a Trend" Live Feed 'The White Lotus' Season 4 Casts Helena Bonham Carter, Marissa Long and Chris Messina Live Feed Mandy Patinkin Cast as Odin in Amazon's 'God of War' Series Adaptation The Chain HBO Orders Damon Lindelof Series 'The Chain,' a Thriller Described as "'Jaws for Parents" Live Feed 'Sex Criminals' Series Based on Comic Book Scores Prime Video Order Live Feed Streaming Ratings: 'Stranger Things' Sets Another Record With Series Finale Live Feed 'Grey's Anatomy' Debuts Electric Ambulance: "We're Hoping to Start a Trend" Live Feed 'The White Lotus' Season 4 Casts Helena Bonham Carter, Marissa Long and Chris Messina Live Feed Mandy Patinkin Cast as Odin in Amazon's 'God of War' Series Adaptation The Chain HBO Orders Damon Lindelof Series 'The Chain,' a Thriller Described as "'Jaws for Parents" Live Feed 'Sex Criminals' Series Based on Comic Book Scores Prime Video Order