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CBS Picks Up Poppy Montgomery Drama, Gentleman Comedy

• May 16, 2011 02:30 PM ET
• by Rich Juzwiak

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CBS has ordered the cop drama The 2-2 (formerly Rookies), the Poppy Montgomery-starring detective drama Unforgettable, Susannah Grant's A Gifted Man and the sitcom How to Be a Gentleman, which comes via It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia scribe David Hornsby.

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In The 2-2-, six new NYPD cops try to... read more

Cheers & Jeers: The Chicago Code's Winning Delroy Lindo

• Mar 8, 2011 07:00 AM ET
• by Bruce Fretts

Delroy Lindo, The Chicago Code

Cheers to Delroy Lindo for his magnificent performance on The Chicago Code.

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Adam Goldberg Recruited for CBS' Rookies

• Feb 24, 2011 09:22 AM ET
• by Joyce Eng

Adam Goldberg

Adam Goldberg has joined Robert De Niro's cop drama pilot Rookies, Entertainment Weekly reports.

The CBS project revolves around six new NYPD cops trying to balance their personal lives while working the streets of ...
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Leelee Sobieski to Star in CBS' Rookies Pilot

• Feb 18, 2011 05:30 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Leelee Sobieski

Leelee Sobieski will star in CBS' drama Rookies, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

Rookies centers on six new NYPD cops trying to balance their personal lives while working the mean streets of Manhattan. Sobieski, 28, will play... read more

CBS Orders Robert De Niro Crime Pilot

• Jan 21, 2011 05:48 PM ET
• by Natalie Abrams

Robert De Niro

CBS has given the greenlight to Rookies, a crime drama pilot from Robert De Niro, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

Rookies centers on... read more

Vet Earns M.D. on Grey's Anatomy

• Jul 15, 2005 04:00 AM ET
• by Joe Rhodes

Isaiah Washington

For the first 23 years of his life, before he embarked on a circuitous two-decade acting career and the breakout role of Dr. Preston Burke on Grey's Anatomy, Isaiah Washington walked a very straight line.

He woke up every day knowing exactly what he was supposed to do and who he was supposed to be. Everyone in his suburban Houston neighborhood — where he did his homework, got good grades and stayed out of trouble — knew he was going to get a football scholarship to pay his way through college. But even when that didn't happen, he simply went to the backup plan and joined the Air Force, where he learned enough about aerospace engineering to land a successful private sector job in Washington, D.C.

Throughout it all, he showed up every day and worked hard, and if he had any questions, he asked someone in charge: a coach, a superior officer, a boss. He got married the day aft read more