Deadline is reporting that CBS comedy pilot Jury Duty has added Mom‘s Sadie Calvano and Alanna Ubach (Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce).
Based on a British format, with Dana Klein (9JKL) and Stephanie Darrow (The Odd Couple) adapting for American television, Jury Duty follows a group of sequestered jurors throughout the course of the trial they’re working.
Calvano will play Linzee, an extremely optimistic, easily excitable animal lover.
Ubach will portray unprofessional Judge Wallace, a former aspiring actress who shares way too much personal information.
Jury Duty is one of several comedy pilots in contention at CBS, joining single cam genre comedy Ghosts, starring iZombie‘s Rose McIver; B Positive, about a man seeking a kidney donor who finds his salvation where he least expects it; Raised by Wolves, starring Modern Family‘s Julie Bowen as a crisis manager who adopts a child; sibling divorce series The Three of Us; The United States of Al, revolving around the friendship between a Marine and his interpreter; and an untitled comedy from Corinne Kingsbury, John Francis Daley, and Jonathan Goldstein that stars Hannah Simone as a young woman who seeks her mother’s (Elizabeth Hurley) help in raising her toddler.
In addition to her role on the CBS comedy, Calvano’s television credits include Why Women Kill, Melissa & Joey, and Kickin’ It, while Ubach has appeared on the likes of See Dad Run, Euphoria, and Dietland. They join a cast that includes Meaghan Rath (Hawaii Five-0) and Jack Cutmore-Scott (Deception).
