Deadline is reporting that Hawaii Five-0‘s Meaghan Rath has joined CBS comedy pilot Jury Duty.
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.
Rath will play sarcastic, neurotic Jen, a successful book editor who’s the last single person in her friend group.
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 procedural, Rath’s television credits include Being Human, Rogue, and Kingdom. She joins a cast that includes Jack Cutmore-Scott (Deception, Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life).
