{"id":62821,"date":"2012-02-24T16:13:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2012\/02\/24\/martin-lawrence-new-tv-series-cbs\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T13:40:34","slug":"martin-lawrence-new-tv-series-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/martin-lawrence-new-tv-series-cbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lawrence Coming Back To TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Martin Lawrence Coming Back To TV With New Series<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

February 24, 2012<\/p>\n

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According to Deadline.com<\/a>, CBS has given a late green light to a an untitled multi-camera comedy starring Martin Lawrence<\/strong>. The project, written by Mike Lisbe<\/strong> and Nate Reger<\/strong> and produced by CBS TV Studios, stars Lawrence as a widowed father of two teenagers who, after losing his job in construction, decides to go to the police academy and become a cop at the age of 46. Lisbe and Reger are executive producing with Lawrence\u2019s managers, Michael Green and Sam Maydew from The Collective.<\/p>\n

Lisbe and Reger are familiar faces at CBS, their most recent gigs were serving as supervising producers on the network\u2019s $#*! My Dad Says and co-executive producers on this season\u2019s How To Be A Gentleman. Nevertheless, the choice of their script as a starring vehicle for Lawrence was a surprise. CBS had commissioned 2 top writers, Tom Hertz and Larry Wilmore, to pen 2 potential vehicles for Lawrence, who has a talent deal with CBS this season. Additionally, the network had a couple of backup scripts that were not so specifically tailored for Lawrence, and one of them, Lisbe and Reger\u2019s cop comedy, ended up getting the pilot order.<\/p>\n

While Lawrence has had success on the big screen, with box office hits such as Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, Wild Hogs, <\/strong>and the Big Momma’s House<\/strong> franchise, he’s mostly remembered for his own television series, Martin<\/strong>, which ran from 1992 to 1997. He also served as an executive producer for TV One’s Love That Girl!<\/strong>, starring Tatyana Ali<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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